Faulty testing software blamed by CrowdStrike for worldwide outage caused by bug
CrowdStrike has attributed a buggy update that caused 8.5 million Windows machines to crash worldwide to faulty testing software, as stated in a post incident review (PIR). The company explained that a bug in the Content Validator allowed an update with problematic data to pass validation. CrowdStrike has pledged to implement new measures to prevent a similar issue from occurring in the future. The massive blue screen of death (BSOD) outage affected several businesses worldwide, including airlines, broadcasters, the London Stock Exchange and many others. The issue forced Windows machines…
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