Airplanes, Hospitals, Financial Institutions, personal computers affected largely after Cloudstrike, a sybersecurity company sent a flawed software update.
NYTimes
"At the Heart of the massive disruption is Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm that provides software to thousands of companies worldwide.
"CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has since said that the company is "actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts," stressing that Mac and Linux hosts are not affected.
"This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed," he said on social media.
One expert suggested it may be the "largest IT outage in history.
NYTimes
"At the Heart of the massive disruption is Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm that provides software to thousands of companies worldwide.
"CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has since said that the company is "actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts," stressing that Mac and Linux hosts are not affected.
"This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed," he said on social media.
One expert suggested it may be the "largest IT outage in history.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/07/19/latest-live-updates-on-a-major-it-outage-spreading-worldwide.html
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- Global outages: Tech disruptions across the world have hit airlines, banks, businesses, schools and government, along with some health and emergency services. One expert said it could be the “largest IT outage in history.”
- What’s behind this? A software update for Microsoft Windows operating systems issued by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike was the root cause of the chaos, experts tell CNN.
- CrowdStrike response: The company’s CEO said a fix has been deployed, but getting systems back in order will be a lengthy process. CrowdStrike promised customers “full transparency” on how the outage occurred and “to prevent anything like this from happening again.”
- US hit hard: About 3,000 flights into or out of the US were canceled Friday, according to FlightAware.com. Additionally, disruptions took place across the country, from 911 call centers to drivers’ services and even blood donation centers."
- CNN
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