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The Morning Brief
The Blue Screen of Death
Jul 19, 2024
Tech research CEO Peter Bendor-Samuel discusses the recent tech apocalypse caused by a problematic update from CrowdStrike, leading to global system crashes and the famous Blue Screen of Death. The podcast delves into the chaos, the challenges in fixing it, and the importance of quality checks in tech implementation.
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- The global IT outage revealed cybersecurity vulnerabilities in software updates, emphasizing the need for rigorous testing procedures.
- The tech apocalypse highlighted the importance of decentralized tech solutions and resilient technology investment to counter system failures.
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Root Cause of the Tech Apocalypse
A global IT outage caused a tech apocalypse, impacting banking, healthcare, and leading to crashes in global stock markets. The historic outage was triggered by an update on CrowdStrike's Falcon sensor embedded in Microsoft applications, resulting in systems crashing and displaying the blue screen of death. Solutions included manual reboots that were time-consuming, with some infrastructures unable to automatically update, requiring human interventions for thousands of affected desktop systems.
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