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The technology and business worlds continue to feel the pain from the ongoing global impact of a faulty software update that quickly snowballed, disrupting airlines, financial services, emergency services, hospitals, and news outlets. The apparent cause of the chaos was a routine update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to its Falcon...

CrowdStrike Software Update Sparks Microsoft Outage, Global Chaos

NBC News

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...

Meet CrowdStrike, the company at the heart of the global tech outage

Reuters

(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 platform and a software issue at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

Factbox-What is CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm behind a global tech outage?

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	Mayor Adams and top New York City officials said emergency services, hospitals, traffic lights, water systems, public transportation and other key functions are running after a massive overnight cyber disaster triggered inadvertently by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.Sky News Falls Off Air, U.S. Flights Grounded Amid Global Tech Meltdown Linked To Microsoft








	An update the firm sent to clients around the world was corrupted, freezing many systems and computers running Microsoft Windows. And it’s truly nuts, but chief executive George Kurtz acknowledged that many computer systems and work stations impacted will need to be rebooted manually.




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NYC Mayor Eric Adams Addresses Massive Tech Outage; CrowdStrike CEO On Apology Tour After Cybersecurity Firm Triggered Meltdown

Business Insider

CrowdStrike said a fix for the IT outage had been deployed but that businesses were likely to need time to bring their systems back online.

Why it's taking time for companies to recover from the CrowdStrike IT outage

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Escalating disruptions continued hours after the technology company said it was gradually fixing an issue affecting access to Microsoft 365 apps and services.

Widespread disruptions were not the result of security incident or cyberattack: CrowdStrike

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The recent major IT outage reportedly linked to Crowdstrike has caused extensive chaos for businesses worldwide. Banks, airlines, and broadcasters have experienced disruptions, with Windows computers crashing suddenly. Crowdstrike acknowledged the issue on its website, attributing it to the Falcon Sensor. Microsoft has also been impacted, with services like Microsoft Teams still affected. Major U.S. airlines such as Delta, United, and American Airlines had to ground flights due to the outage, while Frontier Airlines reported system disturbances.

Crowdstrike Outage Exposes Global Network Vulnerabilities

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Whew! Tech employees likely woke up to their worst nightmare on Friday (July 19). A software update initiated by CrowdStrike caused a global tech outage for Microsoft programs overnight. The outage led to thousands of canceled flights and disrupted operations at banks, hospitals, and media outlets, per the Associated Press. Meanwhile, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz [...]
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Global Tech Outage Caused By CrowdStrike Leads To Chaos For Flights, Banks, Hospitals & More

CrowdStrike, a growing cybersecurity firm, unwittingly triggered a massive IT outage on Friday, disrupting businesses, including healthcare, after issuing what was supposed to be a routine software update. The firm attempted to update its Falcon Sensor product, which protects data encrypted on the cloud from cyberattacks. However, there was a...

CrowdStrike outage hits US hospitals

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	According to the BBC, the disruptions appear to be linked to a software update that went awry for cybersecurity company Crowdstrike’s anti-virus software, which has affected many of Microsoft’s Windows devices. In a statement to the BBC, Microsoft blamed “third-party software,” but did not name the...

Sky News Off Air Briefly, Planes Disrupted During Global Microsoft IT Outage Linked to Cybersecurity Firm Crowdstrike

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What is CrowdStrike, and how did the outage break so much?

(NewsNation) — A technology outage that disrupted computer systems worldwide Friday has thrust a fast-growing cybersecurity firm and its expansive reach into the spotlight. CrowdStrike said...

What is CrowdStrike, and how did the outage break so much?

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