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Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines (www.youtube.com)
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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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[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Sounds pretty plausible to me. An organization doesn’t have to be very big to get into the hundreds or thousands of devices on a network when you account for servers and VM.

A company with 40 employees all accessing and RDS server using a company laptop is looking at 85+ devices already