A global tech outage has grounded airlines, knocked news channels off the air, brought banks offline and interfered with 911 operators as workers around the world woke up on Friday and found they couldn’t boot up their computers.
The reason for the outage is a single software update originating from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. The faulty update has caused some computers running Windows to experience the Blue Screen of Death. In other words, instead of booting up as normal, affected computers are crashing. The update did not impact computers running Mac or Linux.“CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” wrote CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz in an X post Friday morning. “This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed.”CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for…
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