Chinese cybersecurity companies are taking advantage of the massive Microsoft Windows outage that upended businesses and grounded flights around the world on Thursday and Friday by promoting their own software, as Beijing pushes to cut the country's reliance on foreign suppliers. Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity company CrowdStrike caused the outage, one of the largest in history, by pushing a bad software update that crashed the Windows operating system. It affected airports, banks, and hospitals, among many other businesses.
360 Security Technology, China's largest cybersecurity firm, took the opportunity to promote its products, which it claimed were "more reliable, stable, comprehensive and intelligent". Do you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with , our new platform of curated content with explainers, FAQs, analyses and infographics brought to you by our award-winning team. "When selecting endpoint security software, it is important to fully evaluate its defence capabilities to avoid potential security risks and ensure that business continuity and data security are not threatened," it said in a social media post on Friday.
QAX, another well-known firm in the sector, wrote in a blog post on Friday that "software vendors involved in system stability need to have stricter quality control of their software". , which operates the Tencent PC Manager platform, said on Friday that it received reports from some users who e.