- update by CrowdStrike led to a major outage which impacted businesses globally - The confirmation came after widespread reports of technical issues across the world.
- CrowdStrike said it is now in the process of rolling back the update that caused the issue
- some say the failure was actually on Microsoft's part - Microsoft said earlier on Friday that its cloud services had been mostly restored after it suffered an outage affecting its cloud apps in the U.S. It is not clear whether this outage was linked to CrowdStrike’s update.
- thousands of airports, UK and Australian gov structures were affected
- the assumed problem was essentially the EDR crashing WindowsOS with its new update causing thousands of systems to experience a looping BSOD
- CrowdStrike said it is now in the process of rolling back the update that caused the issue
- some say the failure was actually on Microsoft's part - Microsoft said earlier on Friday that its cloud services had been mostly restored after it suffered an outage affecting its cloud apps in the U.S. It is not clear whether this outage was linked to CrowdStrike’s update.
- thousands of airports, UK and Australian gov structures were affected
- the assumed problem was essentially the EDR crashing WindowsOS with its new update causing thousands of systems to experience a looping BSOD