CrowdStrike outage sparks global chaos with airline, bank and other disruptio
As some Microsoft-based computers stopped working, a wave of IT disruptions swept the world on Friday morning, resulting in thousands of flight cancellations and slowing internal and external systems across a number of businesses, including hospitals, banks, stock exchanges, and other organizations. The outage, according to CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity technology company that offers threat intelligence, cloud workload protection, and incident response services, is not the result of a cyberattack but rather a software problem that has been found and fixed. According to CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, some systems can be restored and back up and running right away, but for others, it “could be hours, could be a bit longer” until everything is back up and running.
Customers who were impacted by a flaw discovered in a single Windows host content update are currently receiving assistance from CrowdStrike. Linux and Mac hosts are unaffected,” Kurtz stated earlier on Friday. “We will continue to offer comprehensive and ongoing updates on our website, but for the most recent information, we direct clients to the support portal. Furthermore, we advise businesses to make sure they are engaging with CrowdStrike agents via authorized means. To guarantee the safety and stability of CrowdStrike users, our staff is completely enlisted,” Kurtz remarked. Outages in the government and health services Emergency communication systems are being disrupted in several states, according to a Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency letter that ABC News was able to obtain.The computerized 911 dispatch center of the Phoenix Police Department was affected by the outage in Phoenix, Arizona, but it continued to function. In order to identify a workaround until the outage is fixed, City IT is working hard.
