On 19th July 2024, a single content update from CrowdStrike put around 8.5 million Windows machines into a boot loop, grounding flights, freezing hospital systems and taking down payment terminals worldwide. How did one update cause such widespread disruption?Well, contrary to some of the initial reaction, the chaos wasn’t down to a cyberattack or a sophisticated failure. Instead, CrowdStike had shipped a Falcon channel file with a parameter mis…
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