CrowdStrike Explains Friday Incident Crashing Millions of Windows Devices (thehackernews.com)

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[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 16 points 1 month ago

A smoke test, aka turn it on and "see if it catches fire," would have caught this.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

And a controlled rollout would've limited the damage.

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