On July 19, 2024, a faulty update released by cybersecurity firm "CrowdStrike":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrowdStrike caused widespread outages of systems running [[Microsoft Windows]]. The issue causes the affected machines to crash, showing a [[blue screen of death]].

h4. External Links
* "Wikipedia page":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident
2024 crowdstrike incident