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

Business Insider

Some retailers and fast-food chains are limiting their operations and only taking cash payments following a massive global IT outage.

Global IT outage hits Starbucks mobile-order system and card payments at businesses

Air travel in the U.S. is a busy business, one that sees 45,000 flights serving 2.9 million each day, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Our frenzied skies got a little calmer early Friday morning however, as the CrowdStrike software outage impacted United, Delta and American Airlines—the three largest airlines in the U.S.

Watch Air Traffic Disintegrate In Real Time From The CrowdStrike Outage

Elon Musk wasted no time in finding a convenient scapegoat for the global IT outage caused by a botched software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. “Not very ‘bright’ right now, is it?” Musk wrote on X, formerly Twitter, Friday morning in reply to a more than two years old post from CrowdStrike. In that post, the Austin, Texas-based firm said it was proud to be a “Gold Partner” of recruiting company Bright Network’s panel on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Elon Musk is already blaming diversity initiatives for the massive CrowdStrike global tech outage

TheConversationAU

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.



The big four banks, Telstra and major media organisations including the...

Massive global IT outage hits banks, airports, supermarkets – and a single software update is likely to blame

LONDON (Reuters) - American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike became a household name for all the wrong reasons on Friday, after a botched update caused havoc around the world. The company's stock fell more than 14% after an outage disrupted operations across multiple industries - shutting down public services, halting flights, and...

CrowdStrike Chaos Could Prompt Rethink Among Investors, Customers

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(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 US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, experts told CNN.

What is CrowdStrike, the company linked to the global outage?

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Your payday might be delayed thanks to the global CrowdStrike outage. The Global Payroll Association (GPA) warned Friday that millions of workers around the world “risk going without their wages” because their employers or banks rely on CrowdStrike. Suggested Reading. Austin-based CrowdStrike issued an update late Thursday to...

The CrowdStrike tech outage could mean a missed payday for millions

A massive global tech outage plunged airports and businesses into chaos Friday morning. It even disrupted emergency services and urgent surgeries. The cause of the issue? A widely used cybersecurity software provider, CrowdStrike, issued a corrupted software update to its flagship product, Falcon, which is used on Microsoft’s Windows systems.

What is CrowdStrike? The cybersecurity giant behind the massive 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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Even McDonald's and Starbucks are being hit by the CrowdStrike global tech outage

A global tech outage has caused major disruptions for some retailers, including food giants McDonald’s and Starbucks. The massive outage was caused by a mishandled software...

Even McDonald's and Starbucks are being hit by the CrowdStrike global tech outage

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