You may have seen in the news this past week that there has been a bit of disruption caused to essential services because somebody made a silly little mistake when updating a piece of security software called Crowdstrike.
This post has been cobbled together to try help anybody looking for a simple explaination of how did Crowdstrike break windows.
Crowdstrike Analysis:
It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.
Since I am a professional C++ programmer, let me decode this stack trace dump for you. pic.twitter.com/uUkXB2A8rm
— Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower (@Perpetualmaniac) July 19, 2024
A leading retired developer who made some of the most essential functions of the Windows operating system for Microsoft also did this explainer on his YouTube channel.
