For the past few weeks, the CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) outage dominated the headlines. So, what exactly happened with the CrowdStrike outage? CrowdStrike is a Texas-based cybersecurity company that develops software to help other companies recognize and block hacks. CrowdStrike’s Falcon software is widely used by Fortune 500 companies in industries ranging from banking to the airline industry. Many of these companies have CrowdStrike software installed on their Windows machines to protect the organization fr ...