Makomo
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An abrupt disruption affecting the global business and travel industry because of an erroneous software update by a cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike; cybercriminals take advantage of it and send fake alerts that pretend to be CrowdStrike’s staff or an IT expert. There has been a reported increase in the kind of phishing emails sent by the hackers in the UK Cyber Security Center. Microsoft disclosed that 8. preventing 5 million Windows devices from getting the update as this reveals the dependency phenomenon in the tech world. It affected the airlines greatly, with many thousand of flights being cancelled particularly in the U. S , it also affected the healthcare systems where several clinics was closed and appointments were cancelled. The tech industry is answering to the incident and experts are discussing the quality control of CrowdStrike as well as new regulations may not appear. On the other hand, the hackers are capitalizing on substantive data of business that is affected by the outage, with details knowledge on endpoint-protection tools which helps them in the execution of the phishing schemes.
