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What to make of the Crowdstrike outage?
On Friday 19 July 2024 a faulty update to security software vendor CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor application triggered widespread disruption. Companies worldwide were affected, with Microsoft Windows based computers running CrowdStrike software displaying a blue screen of death.