The most large-scale IT failure occurred this Friday, July 19 – computers running the Windows operating system suddenly stopped booting due to “crooked” drivers integrated into the CrowdStrike antivirus update for the Azure cloud service.
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As NBN reports with a link to the BBC material, as a result of the technical difficulties described above, millions of devices running Windows OS have stopped working all over the world.
In particular, the “bug” was provoked by the inept actions of the developers of the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, who damaged a component of the package that updates anti-virus software for cloud servers, thereby blocking user access to the Network.
According to Microsoft analysts, the installation of the update from CrowdStrike had a negative impact on 8.5 million Windows devices, or almost 1 percent. Bill Gates' company notes that the statistics regarding exactly how many devices turned off due to this failure are very accurate, since Microsoft engineers received telemetry of the sagging performance of many computers against the backdrop of unsuccessful attempts by PCs to connect to the Internet. .
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