People walk next to blacked out digital billboards at Macy's Herald Square following a global IT outage, in New York City, U.S. July 19, 2024. REUTERS/David 'Dee' DelgadoSAN FRANCISCO : Security experts said CrowdStrike's routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients' computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks before it was deployed.
"What it looks like is, potentially, the vetting or the sandboxing they do when they look at code, maybe somehow this file was not included in that or slipped through," said Steve Cobb, chief security officer at Security Scorecard, which also had some systems impacted by the issue. The update's problem was"in a file that contains either configuration information or signatures," he said. Such signatures are code that detects specific types of malicious code or malware.
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