CrowdStrike Update Bricks Estimated 8.5M Windows Machines Worldwide
Briefly

Crowdstrike pushed an "unskippable" update to all of their phone-home endpoints. Anyone set with an N-1 or N-2 configuration (where N represents the most recent version of the software, and the -# is how many versions behind someone chooses to be) had that option ignored...
Everyone believed that CrowdStrike was doing its due diligence in staging before pushing it out to the rest of the world. Obviously, someone in CrowdStrike skipped a step. Whatever approval/implementation system they used failed them. Anyone using the CrowdStrike program got the update and died. "Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) as a Service."
Read at InfoQ
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