CrowdStrike's antivirus software update caused over a billion Windows computers to crash, disrupting essential services globally, attributing the incident to human error.
The outage was more severe than previous internet disruptions, impacting individual endpoint computers and essential services rather than just the backbone, with challenges in identifying the cause and resolution.
There is concern over the recurrence of such incidents, highlighting the inevitability and complexities of preventing large-scale internet failures despite addressing oversight issues.
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