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Crash 8.5 million computers with this one weird trick: A CrowdStrike story

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This week we're discussing the 2024 incident in which a malformed update of CrowdStrike Falcon caused 8.5 million computers running Microsoft Windows to crash.

Links

- Read our in-depth article about what happened and what it tells us about the security and robustness of the modern internet

- Find more about the 911 outages across several US states

- CrowdStrike's own review of the problem

- Our podcast on the XZ exploit

- Facebook VPN exploitation

- The philosopher Caitlin was thinking of was Paul Virilio

  continue reading

88 episodes

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This week we're discussing the 2024 incident in which a malformed update of CrowdStrike Falcon caused 8.5 million computers running Microsoft Windows to crash.

Links

- Read our in-depth article about what happened and what it tells us about the security and robustness of the modern internet

- Find more about the 911 outages across several US states

- CrowdStrike's own review of the problem

- Our podcast on the XZ exploit

- Facebook VPN exploitation

- The philosopher Caitlin was thinking of was Paul Virilio

  continue reading

88 episodes

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