Global banks, airlines, hospitals and government offices were disrupted due to the outage.
It is unclear how that faulty code got into the update and why it was not detected before being released to customers.
“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 Mr 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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