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

  • Written by: Toby Murray, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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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...

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