What happened and why we’re screwed

One strike and your PC’s out

Yesterday, you couldn’t miss seeing photos of the Windows Blue Screen of Death all over airport screens and news of massive problems hitting computers everywhere. 

• Some consider it one of the largest IT outages in history...
• CrowdStrike is a Texas-based cybersecurity company with over 30,000 customers. 
• Its main purpose is to protect computers, laptops and networks from hackers and cybercrime.
• You may be thinking, “Just 30,000? That’s not a lot.” 
• But CrowdStrike’s customers are huge companies that collectively have hundreds of millions of Windows PCs and systems. 

That’s why the problem they caused was so widespread — and devastating.
So, what the heck happened?...