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
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
On Friday, when a CrowdStrike update caused millions of Microsoft systems to crash around the world, many businesses were faced with a choice: Go cash-only, or close until systems came back online. This quickly caused chaos in Australia, whose government has explicitly encouraged businesses to go cashless. Pictures posted on social media showed card-only self-checkout … Read more
“If one of those computers is affected, suddenly all of your sterilization procedures have to slow down or even stop, and then operations stop,” he says. With large healthcare systems employing thousands of personnel and looking after vast numbers of patients—last year Michigan Medicine had more than 2.7 million outpatient visits—modern healthcare has become reliant … Read more
Nonemergency surgeries, procedures and medical visits were canceled or suspended at multiple hospitals across the country Friday amid a global software outage that has kept health care workers from accessing medical records, prescriptions, scheduling, and other electronic tools and documents. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the state’s largest, said it has canceled “all previously scheduled … 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
Banks, airports, TV stations, hotels, and countless other businesses are all facing widespread IT outages, leaving flights grounded and causing widespread disruption, after Windows machines have displayed errors worldwide. In the early hours of Friday, companies in Australia running Microsoft’s Windows operating system started reporting devices showing Blue Screens of Death (BSODs). Shortly after, reports … Read more
Thousands of Windows users worldwide are encountering the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error, which causes systems to abruptly shut down or restart. Microsoft has identified a recent CrowdStrike update as the source of this issue. The bug has notably impacted several companies, banks, and government offices in the US and Australia. Blue Screen Error … Read more
