REVEALED: What caused the Microsoft global outage that saw ‘dreaded Blue Screen of Death’ paralyze America
The chaos was due to a defect in a single content update by Crowdstrike, a US-based cybersecurity firm used by Microsoft, the company shared at 5:30am ET. Crowdstrike assured the public that the outage was not caused by a cybersecurity attack and that it could take up to 36 hours to fix, analysts told DailyMail.com …