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What is CrowdStrike Falcon and what does it do? Is my computer safe?
The global outage linked to the cyber-security software is a timely reminder to be incredibly careful when deploying automatic updates to products.
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The widespread outage has been linked to a piece of software called CrowdStrike Falcon.
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Toby Murray
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A massive IT outage has affected computer systems worldwide
The outage is unprecedented in its scale and severity. The technical term for what has happened to the affected computers is that they have been “bricked”. This word refers to those computers being rendered so useless by this outage that – at least for now – they may as well be bricks.
