(RepublicanView.org) – The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, the largest in America, was closed on Monday, July 22 following a cyberattack the previous Friday. In response to the attack, the court disabled its own computer system. Presiding Judge Samantha P. Jessner issued a statement saying the court had experienced an “unprecedented” attack, prompting a shutdown that was necessary to secure “the integrity and confidentiality of information.”
The County network involves 36 courthouses, all of which were set to resume working on July 23 thanks to the “tireless work of court staff and security experts.” Nevertheless, court officials warned of significant delays, exacerbated by the lack of remote appearance facilities for the Civil, Family law, Probate, and Traffic law departments – meaning all individuals were required to appear in court in person.
The cyberattack is still under investigation, but officials said it was not connected to the CrowdStrike software issue that disrupted numerous facilities at roughly the same time.
CrowdStrike published a statement on July 24, including a post-incident review, blaming a test software bug for failing to validate a content update that was distributed to millions of computers around the world. The CrowdStrike Falcon software, used to manage malware and security breaches, was subject to a configuration update on July 19. The software update intended to “gather telemetry on possible novel threat techniques” but caused millions of computers to crash.
An estimated 8.5 million computers were affected, impacting operations in banks, airports, hospitals, police departments, government agencies, and TV channels. The incident has raised concerns about the pitfalls of a digitally dependent society and of placing enormous power into the hands of tech companies.
CrowdStrike is one of America’s largest cybersecurity companies, and more than half of Fortune 500 firms are among its customers.
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