Computers at airlines, hospitals and governments that were protected by the cybersecurity platform CrowdStrike must be manually rebooted to incorporate the company’s patch following the overnight release of a flawed software update which left individuals facing a blue screen Friday morning. Host Carol Hills speaks with Steven Murdoch — professor of security engineering and head of the Information Security Research Group of University College London — about the aftermath of the systems outage which has impacted Microsoft users worldwide.
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