Tech Desk
Jul 26, 2024
The global tech outage has become stale news now, which shouldn't have been the case considering the scope of devastation it caused, including the cancellation of hundreds of flights and disruption of banking sectors.
As the outage's detrimental effects were attributed to a faulty update from CrowdStrike which destroyed over 8 million devices running on Microsoft Windows.
To clear its blameful reputation, CrowdStrike has emerged on the scene with an assessment of what happened which led to the irreversible crash of 8.5 million devices.
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Covering a wide range of factors at play, the report attributes the occurrence of a massive outage to an error, dwelt inside a test software, which failed to serve as a firewall for the content update pushed into millions of Windows devices.
The report further details that the bug prevented the software-in-test to oversee content's mishandling and deploy a potent solution to reduce the possibility of such a disaster.
What caused the global Microsoft outage
The Falcon software from CrowdStrike is a widely used one in businesses around the world, which serves to mitigate malware attacks and security breaches on millions of Windows devices.
As per the evaluation report, CrowdStrike released a content configuration update for its Falcon software which was supposed to “gather telemetry on possible novel threat techniques.”
Although these updates are released on a regular basis, the one of last week is to blame for the crash of millions of Windows devices.
