# Crowdstrike failure - How? Why?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowdstrike-failure-how-why/1004492>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 20, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowdstrike-failure-how-why/1004492 "2024-07-20T13:54:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowdstrike-failure-how-why/1004492/2 "2024-07-20T14:01:31Z")

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**Two related threads:** but this can stay open. **Remember people, keep this factual, use the other two for Breaking News and open discussion.**

> [@Breaking news - huge outage/interruption created by Crowdstrike problem (July 2024)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-huge-outage-interruption-created-by-crowdstrike-problem-july-2024/1004454/1):
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> Sys admins all over the world are having (or are about to have) a very bad Friday and a very long weekend. The short (preliminary) version is that it looks like Crowdstrike (whose software is supposed to detect and prevent cyberattacks) pushed out a flawed update which now prevents affected machines from booting. Local computers can be safe-booted to a command prompt and the bad executables replaced or removed. But given that the problem prevents machines from booting, remotely-managed com…

> [@Anyone else affected by this Microsoft Outlook outage?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-affected-by-this-microsoft-outlook-outage/1004460):
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> I work for one of the largest federal agencies and haven’t been able to sign on to work for the past 1.5 hrs. Fortunately, the Dope and all of my time-wasters seem unaffected! smiley Just weird, tho, when something like this happens, and it is made clear how potentially vulnerable our reliance on certain technolgy can be.

[Please see excellent summary](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowdstrike-failure-how-why/1004492/11) added by @Cervaise in this thread: [Post #11](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowdstrike-failure-how-why/1004492/11)

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