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CrowdStrike Chaos: Global Outage Shakes Businesses and Banks

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A major cybersecurity firm faces a widespread outage causing chaos for airlines, banks, and businesses worldwide. Get the scoop on how CrowdStrike's update triggered a series of technical glitches impacting critical services.

The recent major outage at cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike sent shockwaves through the business and tech world, disrupting operations for airlines, banks, and companies globally. The crisis, involving a faulty update, led to Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) errors, grounding planes and affecting operations at major institutions. The widespread cascade of failures impacted not only CrowdStrike's services but also critical sectors like the London Stock Exchange.

Australia and New Zealand were not spared from the cyber outage, which hit government agencies, media outlets, retailers, banks, airlines, and telecoms companies. The incident, related to CrowdStrike and Microsoft, caused a massive disruption, highlighting the interconnectedness of global IT systems. The outage reached far and wide, affecting services from supermarkets to banks in a detrimental domino effect.

As enterprises worldwide struggle to cope with the repercussions of the software outage, individual home computers seem to be safe from the chaos. While businesses and institutions grapple with the aftermath, the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike faces a significant blow, with shares plummeting 20% in premarket trading following the incident. The company has since issued a fix to address the Windows outage, requiring a reboot of all affected computers, showcasing the scale of the issue at hand.

In a strange turn of events, the outage linked with CrowdStrike has shaken up the tech industry, revealing vulnerabilities in the interconnected global IT infrastructure. Despite the chaos, the incident serves as a stark reminder of the importance of robust cybersecurity measures in an increasingly digitized world.

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Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike suffers major outage affecting ... (CNBC)

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike suffered a major outage on Friday, the company told NBC, which impacted businesses globally.

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CrowdStrike Crisis: Sky News and Major Companies Globally ... (Techweez)

An update from CrowdStrike is causing Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) errors, disrupting operations for airlines, banks, and businesses.

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Major Microsoft and Crowdstrike disruptions ground planes, banks ... (Fortune)

A series of technical glitches disrupted services at airlines, banks and the London Stock Exchange on Friday, an unusually widespread cascade of failures ...

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Australia and New Zealand cyber outage hits government, media ... (Reuters)

A cyber outage related to an issue at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike and Microsoft hit media, retailers, banks, airlines and telecoms companies ...

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Global IT outage live: Australia banks, supermarkets and media ... (ABC News)

Computer security company CrowdStrike is linked to a major IT outage affecting banks, airports, supermarkets and businesses across Australia and the world.

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Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters ... (The Verge)

A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike is knocking affected PCs and servers offline, forcing them into a recovery boot loop so machines can't ...

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Microsoft outage: What is CrowdStrike, the service causing 'Blue ... (Business Today)

Microsoft Windows users worldwide including India, Australia, Germany, the United States, the UK and more are seeing a blue screen issue on their laptops.

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CrowdStrike Windows Outage—What Happened And What To Do ... (Forbes)

A CrowdStrike update is breaking computers running Windows, causing them to crash and display the Blue Screen of Death. Companies around the world have been ...

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Crowdstrike and Microsoft: What we know about global IT outage (BBC News)

Australia's home affairs ministry and American Airlines have both said the outage appeared to be related to an issue at global cyber-security firm Crowdstrike.

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Huge Microsoft Outage, Linked to CrowdStrike, Takes Down ... (WIRED)

A software update from cybersecurity company Crowdstrike appears to have inadvertently disrupted IT systems globally.

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Massive global IT outage hits banks, airports, supermarkets – and a ... (The Conversation AU)

Enterprises across Australia and the world are struggling to cope with a huge software outage – but your home computer is probably safe.

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CrowdStrike shares tank 20% in premarket after major outage hits ... (CNBC)

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike saw its shares plunge Friday in premarket trading, after an update led to a major outage, impacting businesses globally.

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CrowdStrike has 'issued a fix' to Windows outage – as it happened (The Guardian)

She says a fix has been issued but it may take a while – it's understood every affected computer had to be rebooted. O'Neil says: The Australian Government has ...

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What is CrowdStrike Falcon and what does it do? Is my computer ... (The Conversation AU)

An update to Falcon software by the cyber security company CrowdStrike has caused an unprecedented global IT outage. So, what is it exactly?

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What is CrowdStrike, the company linked to the global outage? (CNN)

The global computer outage affecting airports, banks and other businesses on Friday appears to stem at least partly from a software update issued by major ...

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Crowdstrike and Microsoft: What we know about global IT outage (BBC News)

Cyber-security firm Crowdstrike has admitted that the problem was caused by an update to its Falcon antivirus software, designed to protect Microsoft Windows ...

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What is Crowdstrike? What to know about company linked to global ... (USA TODAY)

What is Crowdstrike? The cybersecurity firm appears to be linked to a global tech outage impacting many industries Friday morning.

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Statement on Falcon Content Update for Windows Hosts ... (The Dallas Morning News)

Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We ...

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What is CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm behind a global tech ... (Reuters)

Companies across several industries including airlines, banking and media were hit on Friday by a global tech outage tied to Microsoft's Azure cloud ...

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CrowdStrike Stock Falls Post Outage But There Are Still Reasons To ... (Forbes)

Shares of Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike fell 13% in pre-market trading on July 19 after suffering “a major outage affecting businesses ...

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Widespread technology outage disrupts flights and banking around ... (NPR)

The problem affected airline communications, causing the Federal Aviation Administration to ground major carriers in the U.S., including American Airlines, ...

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Statement on Falcon Content Update for Windows Hosts ... (Axios)

CrowdStrike is the leader in next-generation endpoint protection, threat intelligence and response services. CrowdStrike's core technology, the Falcon platform, ...

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Global Microsoft Meltdown Tied to Bad Crowstrike Update – Krebs ... (Krebs on Security)

A faulty software update from cybersecurity vendor Crowdstrike crippled countless Microsoft Windows computers across the globe today, disrupting everything ...

Windows computers are blue screening and when rebooted loop ... (BU Today)

IS&T teams have identified the cause of the incident to be a file update by CloudStrike. This issue is affecting systems across the world and is not isolated to ...

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CrowdStrike outage hits US hospitals (Healthcare Dive)

The cybersecurity firm released what was meant to be a routine software update, but now health systems, including CommonSpirit Health and Cleveland Clinic, are ...

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It's not just CrowdStrike - the cyber sector is vulnerable (Financial Times)

It takes malicious adversaries an average of 62 minutes to bring your business down, warns the CrowdStrike website. In the event, the cyber security company ...

Widespread IT Outage Due to CrowdStrike Update | CISA (CISA)

Impacts Windows 10 and later systems. · Does not impact Mac and Linux hosts. · Is due to the CrowdStrike Falcon content update and not to malicious cyber activity ...

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CrowdStrike Global Outage: How To Fix IT Issues Caused By Update (Forbes)

CrowdStrike has already deployed a fix for the outage, but it could take some time before all systems are updated, according to George Kurtz, ...

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IT problems will take 'some time' to fix, says Crowdstrike boss (BBC News)

The boss of cyber-security firm Crowdstrike has admitted it could be "some time" before all systems are back up and running after an update from the company ...

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Our Statement on Today's Outage | CrowdStrike (Arizona's Family)

CrowdStrike is operating normally, and this issue does not affect our Falcon platform systems. There is no impact to any protection if the Falcon sensor is ...

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What's to blame for the CrowdStrike mess? Our drive for efficiency. (The Washington Post)

The internet was just beginning, and global trade was shifting manufacturing from the United States to countries that had cost advantages (such as China and ...

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What is CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company behind the global ... (CBS News)

The outages Friday were connected to "a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts," CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said in a statement.

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Slow recovery after CrowdStrike update sparks global IT outage (Aljazeera.com)

Head of the cybersecurity firm issues a public apology but cautions that a total recovery could take weeks.

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How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World's Computers (WIRED)

By Friday morning, the situation turned into a perfect storm when the security firm CrowdStrike released a flawed software update that sent Windows computers ...

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The Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of ... (The Guardian)

As the world recovers from the largest IT outage in history, it shows the danger of one point of failure in IT infrastructure.

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Timeline: How the CrowdStrike outage unfolded (CNN)

A global software outage Friday brought many computer systems across business, healthcare, technology and government sectors to a screeching halt in under ...

Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage - The Official ... (Microsoft)

On July 18, CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update that began impacting IT systems globally. Although this was not a ...

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Crowdstrike: How China swerved worst of global tech meltdown (BBC News)

Very few organisations will buy software from the US firm, partly thanks to its criticism of Beijing.

Some City of Portland Systems Impacted by Microsoft CrowdStrike ... (www.portland.gov)

Due to the impacts to some City systems from the worldwide Microsoft CrowdStrike software outage, Mayor Ted Wheeler issued an Emergency Declaration at 3:00 ...

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CrowdStrike IT outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices ... (BBC News)

The glitch came from a cyber security company called CrowdStrike which sent out a corrupted software update to its huge number of customers. Microsoft, which is ...

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Disruptions continue after IT outage affects millions around the globe (NPR)

Airports, hospitals, and banks said they were recovering after a failed software update delivered by the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to Microsoft's ...

Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts | CrowdStrike (CrowdStrike)

Sensor configuration updates are an ongoing part of the protection mechanisms of the Falcon platform. This configuration update triggered a logic error ...

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Falcon Content Update Remediation and Guidance Hub | CrowdStrike (CrowdStrike)

CrowdStrike is actively assisting customers affected by a defect in a recent content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts were not impacted.

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Global CrowdStrike Outage Proves How Fragile IT Systems Have ... (The New York Times)

While in some corners of Silicon Valley people worry about the risks of A.I., a simple failed software update caused a worldwide outage.

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CrowdStrike discloses new technical details behind outage (SC Magazine)

CrowdStrike said Saturday a bad “sensor configuration update” in its Falcon cybersecurity platform was to blame for a massive global computer outage.

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Microsoft says about 8.5 million of its devices affected by ... (Reuters)

CrowdStrike helped develop a solution that will help Microsoft's Azure infrastructure accelerate a fix, Microsoft said.

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CrowdStrike Global IT Outage: Experts Weigh In (Trend Micro)

Trend Micro experts weigh in on the large-scale Windows outage caused by a CrowdStrike content update.

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It could take up to two weeks to resolve 'teething issues' following ... (ABC News)

Microsoft says 8.5 million computers failed during the CrowdStrike global outage. abc.net.au/news/microsoft-says-crowdstrike-outage-affected-more- ...

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