Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz apologized for a global tech failure that disrupted multiple industries on Friday, vowing to work with all of its customers as they work to get their operations back online.

CrowdStrike CEO apologizes for tech outage, says systems should be recovering -NBC

TechRadar’s Editor at Large Lance Ulanoff explains how corrupted data from a software update issued by major US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike is the cause behind the global computer outage affecting airports, banks and other businesses.

What caused this major global tech outage? Editor explains

(Reuters) -Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has deployed a fix for an issue that triggered a major tech outage that affected industries ranging from airlines to banking to healthcare worldwide, the company's CEO said on Friday.

CrowdStrike deploys fix for issue causing global tech outage

Industries ranging from healthcare to banking, air travel, and others are struggling with a global IT outage that hit Microsoft Windows PCs and servers connected to the CrowdStrike security platform early Friday morning. It could take a while to fully resolve these Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) errors, with the standard fix requiring a trip into Safe Mode, but Microsoft is now advising that rebooting systems affected by the CrowdStrike glitch up to 15 times could get them back up and running.

CrowdStrike and Microsoft: all the latest news on the global IT outage

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A fault with an update issued by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike led to a cascading effect among global IT systems Friday, with industries ranging from banking to airlines facing outages. Banks and health care providers saw their services disrupted and television broadcasters went offline as businesses worldwide grappled with the ongoing...

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Computer systems across Australia and overseas have failed this afternoon after an update was pushed out by global security software provider CrowdStrike.

The software affected by the update appears to be the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, which is installed by businesses or other organisations on desktop computers and notebooks to provide security monitoring.

What’s happening?

The software failure has caused a major IT outage affecting organisations across Australia and around the world. The websites of the Commonwealth Bank, Telstra, the ABC and many others have been affected, according to crowdsourced outage reporting website DownDetector.



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CrowdStrike CEO Says Mass Global Tech Outage Issue Has Been Fixed But Problems May Persist For Some Time

George Kurtz, the president and CEO of Crowdstrike, says the issue that caused a major global tech outage has been fixed. However, problems may persist for...

CrowdStrike CEO Says Mass Global Tech Outage Issue Has Been Fixed But Problems May Persist For Some Time

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