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CrowdStrike's CEO Just Responded to the Massive Outage That Took Out Computers at Airlines and Hospitals. It Misses the Most Important Point

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20.07.2024

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The blue screen of death, as it's known on Windows PCs, is a failure mode. It basically means that something has gone so wrong with your computer that you can't use it until it's fixed. It's not the kind of thing you want to see if you're running, say, an airline or a bank. It's definitely not the kind of thing you want to see on every computer at a hospital.

That is, however, what happened early Friday when CrowdStrike, which makes software that protects companies from cyberattacks, rolled out a security update that had a devastating effect on host computers. Effectively, the update made the computers unusable, which -- again -- is not a good state for computers that make critical services happen.

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