Crowdstrike tech outage still causing issues globally

A faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide on Friday, grounding flights, knocking down some financial companies and news outlets, and disrupting hospitals, small businesses and government offices.

The breadth of the outages highlighted the fragility of a digitized world dependent on just a few providers for key computing services.

The trouble was sparked by an update issued by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and only affected its customers running Microsoft Windows, the world's most popular operating system for personal computers. It was not the result of hacking or a cyberattack, according to CrowdStrike, which apologized and said a fix was on the way.

[asmithh]

PUSH, PUSH and PUSH a WHOLE LOT MORE and NEVER TEST AND VERIFY ANYTHING.

[metuberob]

if you play crowd baseball after 3 missed swings you are out and the game is over

[WilliamHollinger]

This could be great so rest of America could go back to paper ballets this is great timing so domion system can't be used for voting.

[milimol]

Lol - that wasn’t a BSOD, it was a post-boot repair screen.

[MBrieger]

The accent on the voice recording is rather telling.

[Trevorodunne]

Please Don't let Crowdstrike Get away with this Please sue them.

[joegrindL]

Get Linux!! Get Red Hat!! get Red Hat!!! Get Red Hat!!!

[LandGrabbingIndia]

Is it a made in India/Indian software?

[jan]

Why not go back to previous update for now so we can all go back online

[capn_shawn]

On the positive side: Crowdstrike just made billions of computers un-hackable.

[eokigch]

Come back to DOS 3.1 and DOS network like. It is a trouble free platform. Or else Unix.

[KADSL]

That's MicroShaft for you. You happy Bill Gates? No system is infallible. I'll stick with Linux.