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Sead Fadilpašić

What is CrowdStrike and how did it crash so many business computers?

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Thousands of organizations around the world have been unable to operate properly, due to a major bug that affected most of their Windows computers. Among them are UK broadcaster Sky News, major airline Ryanair, the Berlin airport, and many, many others, all of whom reported the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) and a recovery boot loop issue that prevented their computers from starting up.

It would appear that behind this global outage is a faulty update issued by CrowdStrike.

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