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What caused the Microsoft Windows' crash today?
short by Hiral / on Friday, 19 July, 2024
An update to a product offered by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused Microsoft Windows to crash and display blue screen error for millions of users on Friday. The update was related to CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor, a software designed to prevent computers from cyberattacks. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz blamed the outage on a defect found in single content update for Windows hosts.