Day: July 23, 2024

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  • Day: July 23, 2024

What happened with the Windows outage?

On July 18th, 2024, a seemingly routine security update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike triggered a global IT nightmare. The culprit behind the chaos wasn’t a malicious attack, but a hidden flaw embedded within the update itself. This flaw resided within a critical component of the Windows operating system: a kernel-mode driver. What happened with the