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How errant keystrokes at Crowdstrike led to a global outage of Microsoft networks
It took just a few errant keystrokes by someone at the Texas cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike to cause a digital meltdown that has afflicted millions of computers around the world. Understanding what happened requires a crash course in cyber security. Our …