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remember last Friday when millions of
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computers blue screen for hours
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thousands of flights got cancelled and
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most of the world just kind of took a
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collective break that was all because of
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a company called crowd strike a security
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company that runs software on 298 of the
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Fortune 500 companies last Friday crowd
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strike's Falcon software which is meant
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to spot and detect novel cyber security
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threats pushed an update that made
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millions of computers blue screen that's
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because crowdstrike regularly pushes
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minor software updates to that Falcon
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software to detect from these threats at
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operational speed but this time one of
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those update packets had an outof bounds
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memory error which actually failed to
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get caught due to a bug in the
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validation software that Falcon software
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has special kernel access on Windows
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machines which means it has access to
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the OS that most programs can't touch
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but when a program like that has memory
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error the entire OS will just crash to
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stop anything else from happening you
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also had to physically reboot all of
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these servers which is why it took so
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long for everything to go back to normal
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and I guess Y2K was just 24 years late
