Major Systems Outage Due to Bad CrowdStrike Update: A Wake-Up Call for Cybersecurity
On the morning of July 19,2024, a significant number of major systems experienced widespread outages due to a problematic update from CrowdStrike, an endpoint protection system. The update, which was intended to enhance security, inadvertently caused Windows machines running the updated software to crash. This incident underscores the vulnerabilities inherent in our heavily interconnected digital...