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Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago by TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike pushed an update that caused millions of Windows computers to enter recovery mode, triggering the blue screen of death. Learn ...

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[–] Toribor@corndog.social 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that is what happened here in this situation though, I think the issue was caused exclusively by a Crowdstrike update but I haven't read anything official that really breaks this down.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some comments yesterday were claiming the offending file was several kb of just 0s. All signs are pointing to a massive fuckup from an individual company.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago

Which makes me wonder, did the company even test it at all on their own machines first?