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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Saqib Shah

What is CrowdStrike? Security firm at the heart of global tech outage

The CEO of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has apologised for triggering a global IT outage with a software update.

In the early hours of Friday morning (July 19), thousands of Windows computers began crashing. The resulting pandemonium knocked out airports, banks and supermarkets in its wake, causing widespread disruption around the world.

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