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CrowdStrike blames bug that caused worldwide outage on faulty testing software

CrowdStrike has blamed faulty testing software for a buggy update that crashed 8.5 million Windows machines around the world.

CrowdStrike has blamed faulty testing software for a buggy update that crashed 8.5 million Windows machines around the world, it wrote in an post incident review(PIR). The massive BSOD (blue screen of death) outage impacted multiple companies worldwide including airlines, broadcasters, the London Stock Exchange and many others. Furthermore, the company will start using a staggered deployment strategy for Rapid Response Content to avoid a repeat of the global outage.

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