How An Update Destroyed the Economy | The CrowdStrike Outage

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On July 19, 2024, millions of people around the world discovered that they could no longer turn on their Windows machines. It was later discovered that this was a global outage caused by a faulty update pushed by CrowdStrike, one of the top cybersecurity companies in the world, and their software known as Falcon. The outage affected over 8.5 million computers and is still ongoing, with IT professionals calling it "the modern Y2K" and one of the greatest outages in history.
So what exactly happened, and how can we prevent it from occurring again in the future?

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