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