How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World's Computers
Briefly

Two internet infrastructure disasters collided, disrupting global systems in various sectors with a flawed CrowdStrike update causing Windows computers to go into a catastrophic reboot spiral.
The incident was triggered by a flawed software update from CrowdStrike's Falcon monitoring product, revealing a downside to the system's automatic updating feature, designed to enhance security but potentially undermining it instead.
"It's the biggest case in history-we've never had a worldwide workstation outage."
Read at WIRED
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