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> The details (the particular companies / systems etc) of this global incident don't really matter.

It definitively matters. The main issue he is that Crowdstrike was able to push and update on all server around the world where all their agent is installed ... it looks like an enormous botnet ...

We need a detailed post-mortem on what happened here.



The name sounds like something security researchers would name a botnet.




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