Global IT outage stems from update from Crowdstrike on Microsoft

A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks offline and media outlets off air on Friday in a massive disruption that affected companies and services around the world and highlighted dependence on software from a handful of providers.

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said that the issue believed to be behind the outage was not a security incident or cyberattack.

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[MOONSHIPETH]

Get your digital ID and digital money
Nothing will go wrong LoL

[TheRenatka]

CrowdStrike falcon is not build in MS Windows. It is an additional software installed on Windows and other OS systems

[goddessnoele]

guess is there's some software engineers that are gonna be unemployed Monday🤔

[TacomaDR]

you would think banks would be the headline not airlines ..

[YELG_]

don't set your updates 'auto', give it a week's delay when updating

[hank]

Don’t worry guys the next windows will be great.. 😂

[EricN]

I keep telling people I don't update anything, see why now its happening to everyone and now everyone will see why. THE only time something on my computer breaks or does not work right is when it gets a freaking update

[morallyambiguousnet]

Please note that this is not "Microsoft Software." The company was originally founded by McAfee (the antivirus people) and is privately owned.

[chanm]

"Crowdstrike is built into Windows"? You probably wanted to stop him there and prompt a bit of a better explanation.

[tehdoogie]

This is not built into all Microsoft computers. This only affects people who use crowd strike software.

[jarod]

Every windows update is a “bad” windows update

[billybongthorton]

Whatever happened to test environments? Its software engineering 101.

[jacquesboucher]

DEPENDING on TECH in the world this is just one example ....THAT WE ARE SCREWED, Old SCHOOL is the best school

[shinx]

So much incorrect information in this news clip. Crowdstrike is not a Microsoft product, but can run on windows and other operating systems. It automatically updates itself by default..it's not built into windows. You can't roll back to the old version of the software to automatically fix this.

[TBonerton]

This exact same thing happened in 2006 or so. McAfee released a DAT update to their virus scan tool and it deleted the critical svchost.exe from Windows XP machines. It caused the computers to endlessly reboot. That was a fun day.

[Unsweetened-Joy]

Welcome to the cloud everyone. Everything is wonderful until the cloud goes away.

[gordonbarranger]

Trial run for The "EMP" event in Nov.

[claudemontezin]

And this is caused by a Microsoft out-sourced company that calls this CROWDSTRIKE ? Sounds like a dystopian movie, or a rehearsal for something worse in the making. Who's paying the bill?

[RB-bodex]

Carmi Levy is anything but a “tech expert”. Crowdstrike is not “built into Windows” it’s a 3rd party software that people buy and install. CS did the same thing with Linux a few months ago. What a clown. 🤡

[XY-uctw]

who did release this update from CrowdStrike team without testing? he is our hero of IT-World....