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Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines (www.youtube.com)
submitted 7 months ago by TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike pushed an update that caused millions of Windows computers to enter recovery mode, triggering the blue screen of death. Learn ...

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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Apparently it's embedded in Windows through a specific security option ("Falcon Sensor").

Probably not directly impacting home desktop PCs around the world, and not even most companies running windows, but likely to be active on the big, critical ones.

A billions of computers seems like a lot though.