A global outage of the security software CrowdStrike is effecting everything from international flights to global banks to average businesses around the world Friday morning. Systems are slowly returning to normal, but the effects of the outage will reverberate for the rest of the day, especially for the travelers stranded in airports by thousands of … Read more
Photo: Bryn Lennon – Formula 1 (Getty Images) Formula 1 isn’t immune to Friday’s global technology outage that ground airports to a halt and hampered most forms of commerce involving a computer operated by Windows. Cybersecurity giant Crowdstrike said that a faulty software update caused the mass calamity. Crowdstrike also has a massive presence in … Read more
Right now, much of the world has ground to a halt thanks to a botched update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike. Banks, hospitals, 911 call centers — our own Daniel Golson is even stranded in Schiphol Airport as we speak. Yet, judging by CrowdStrike’s response, the folks worst hit by the outage might be the IT … Read more
CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 by George Kurtz CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company behind a massive global IT outage, is a leader in its sector, known for building software defenses for the cloud computing age and exposing Russian and North Korean threats. Based in Austin, Texas, the company was founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri … Read more
A widespread technology outage on Friday, seemingly linked to issues at global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and Microsoft, disrupted operations at airports, airlines, banks and even hospitals, including several in Canada. A software update by CrowdStrike appeared to have triggered systems problems across the world, and many hospitals said they were impacted by the outage. Some … Read more
Some Canadian flights and media services have been disrupted amid a global technology outage that has grounded planes and impacted banks as well as hospitals across the world. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said on Friday that the problem occurred after a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows and the issue was being resolved. “This is not … Read more
Air travel in the U.S. is a busy business, one that sees 45,000 flights serving 2.9 million each day, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Our frenzied skies got a little calmer early Friday morning however, as the CrowdStrike software outage impacted United, Delta and American Airlines—the three largest airlines in the U.S. Airlines Have … Read more
