A CrowdStrike update is breaking Microsoft computers, making them crash and show the “blue screen of death.” Reports say that businesses all over the world haven’t been able to reboot in any industry. One company that has been affected by the outage is Sky News, which has not been able to report.
It’s still not clear what caused the global IT outage that today halted thousands of planes, slowed down banking and healthcare services, and had a huge impact on other areas.
There are signs that the chaos is ending, but it’s still unclear how long the effects will last. Crowdstrike says it could be “some time.”
The cybersecurity company Crowdstrike said that an update to their antivirus program was the reason for the problem. This software is meant to keep Microsoft Windows computers safe from attacks.
People are reporting the problem on sites like Reddit. One person said, “Wow, stuck in a boot loop, and the entire org taken out.”
CrowdStrike What to DO?
As you may have guessed, the worldwide problem is caused by a problem with CrowdStrike’s protection software. Engineers from the company said they are working on the problem, which has to do with their Falcon Sensor product. Falcon is what CrowdStrike calls “the CrowdStrike platform. It was designed to stop breaches through a unified set of cloud-delivered technologies that stop all types of attacks, including malware and much more.”
The IT outage has hurt companies, airports, and broadcasters. In the U.S., planes have been stopped, and trains and boarding scanners at Edinburgh Airport in Scotland are all having trouble.
The company said it is taking “mitigation actions” because of service problems that began around 6 p.m. Eastern Time. Sky News said the company is looking into problems with cloud services in the U.S. and “an issue affecting several of its apps and services.”
A huge tech failure has messed up travel all over the world and hurt banks and health care as well.
There were problems with the computers that caused thousands of flights to be cancelled. Many computers showed blue error screens.
Airports all over the world had long lines, delays, and cancelled flights because people had to be checked in by hand.
