A "defect" found in Crowdstrike's Windows software has caused much of the world's computers to crash, including airports, train stations, television shows and broadcasts, emergency 911 lines, entire datacenters — you name it.
Not a cyberattack, says Crowdstrike, but this massive outage has certainly been felt globally and shows Crowdstrike's massive reach — especially as things go wrong.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/19/banks-airlines-brokerage-houses-report-widespread-outages-across-the-globe/
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2024-07-19 11:16:32
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