The Internet outage caused by CrowdStrike's flawed update
August 06, 2024
The immediate cause was the CrowdStrike's software had access to the Windows kernel. (Which was why Apple and Linux were unaffected--they deny kernel access to 3rd party software.)
But why did CrowdStrike's software have access to the kernel? Guess. Go ahead, guess. (The answer is in the last couple of paragraphs to this piece beginning with "Ben Thompson writes".