The CrowdStrike outage caused chaos for business – could we see a class action?

SOURCE:THE CONVERSATION- Until last Friday, many businesses hadn’t really dealt with anything quite like the speed and severity of the CrowdStrike IT outage. Being forced to stop operations is costly. Some estimates put the damage bill from the outage at more than A$1 billion in Australia alone. As they continue to tally the losses, it’s…

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CrowdStrike crash showed us how invasive cyber security software is. Is there a better way?

SOURCE:THE CONVERSATION- On Friday, the world suffered what many have described as the largest IT outage in history, when 8.5 million Windows computers crashed and wouldn’t restart. The cause was a bug triggered by an automatic update for a piece of software that until Friday nobody beyond cyber security nerds had heard of: CrowdStrike’s Falcon….

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