Ronan Murphy had an early start on July 19. The Getvisibility CEO had three online meetings scheduled with companies in Australia and New Zealand, so he woke up at 5 a.m. When he checked his email, he saw that all his calls had been cancelled. “Weird,” he thought.
After a brief conversation with a Singaporean employee, who told him that supermarkets in that country had experienced what is known as the blue screen of death, Murphy was shocked to find that Sky News and the BBC were no longer on air. For a moment, he thought it was the end of the world.
It was actually the CrowdStrike Technical Failurewhich caused chaos around the world this month after an update to its antivirus software ended up crashing Microsoft Windows programs worldwide.
