Major IT outages took place this past Friday affecting airlines, logistics, communications, and retail industries.

Who’s behind the crash? CrowdStrike, a security company valued at 83B dollars with corporate customers all over the world. Friday morning, the CrowdStrike team released a faulty update to the systems of their 29,000 customers. Because CrowdStrike is given root access on customer machines, it has the ability to automatically update itself and change system files.

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