CrowdStrike

Workers around the country have been locked out of their computers following a widespread IT outage on Friday afternoon.

Airlines, banks and broadcasters reported disruptions, citing technical issues.

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike suffered a major outage on Friday, the company told NBC, which impacted businesses globally.

The news: Banks, media and tech platforms across Australia have been hit with a simultaneous outage.

Devices at the ABC, Foxtel, the Commonwealth Bank and many more have been impacted by blue screens of death on Windows PCs around the country.

A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike is knocking affected PCs and servers offline, forcing them into a recovery boot loop so machines can't ...

The Register has found numerous accounts of Windows 10 PCs crashing, displaying the Blue Screen of Death, then being unable to reboot. “We're seeing BSOD Org ...

A series of technical glitches disrupted services at airlines, banks and the London Stock Exchange on Friday, an unusually widespread cascade of failures ...

A CrowdStrike update is breaking computers running Windows, causing them to crash and display the Blue Screen of Death. Companies around the world have been ...

The outage is believed to be linked to a glitch in the Falcon threat-detection software developed by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike...

Australia's home affairs ministry and American Airlines have both said the outage appeared to be related to an issue at global cyber-security firm Crowdstrike.

Airlines, banks, media outlets and various other sectors worldwide have been left reeling from what appears to be a global Microsoft outage.

Enterprises across Australia and the world are struggling to cope with a huge software outage – but your home computer is probably safe.

A software outage linked to Microsoft systems is impacting businesses worldwide. A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks offline and media ...

A software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike appears to have inadvertently disrupted IT systems globally.

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 ...

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike saw its shares plunge Friday in premarket trading, after an update led to a major outage, impacting businesses globally.

Cyber-security firm Crowdstrike has admitted that the problem was caused by an update to its Falcon antivirus software, designed to protect Microsoft Windows ...

An update to Falcon software by the cyber security company CrowdStrike has caused an unprecedented global IT outage. So, what is it exactly?

What is Crowdstrike? The cybersecurity firm appears to be linked to a global tech outage impacting many industries Friday morning.

There's a good chance that when you woke up this morning, Crowdstrike was as unfamiliar a name as Joe two doors down. By this evening...

Friday's IT chaos, which disrupted businesses worldwide, has been linked to a piece of software called CrowdStrike Falcon.

Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We ...

Microsoft users in South Africa were unable to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services on Friday morning, while flights were grounded in Europe and ...

Confirming the outage was not “a security incident or cyberattack,” Kurtz said: "The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We refer ...

Behind a massive IT failure that grounded flights, upended markets and disrupted corporations around the world is one cybersecurity company: CrowdStrike ...

CrowdStrike is the leader in next-generation endpoint protection, threat intelligence and response services. CrowdStrike's core technology, the Falcon platform, ...

A faulty software update from cybersecurity vendor Crowdstrike crippled countless Microsoft Windows computers across the globe today, disrupting everything ...

It takes malicious adversaries an average of 62 minutes to bring your business down, warns the CrowdStrike website. In the event, the cyber security company ...

IS&T teams have identified the cause of the incident to be a file update by CloudStrike. This issue is affecting systems across the world and is not isolated to ...

Impacts Windows 10 and later systems. · Does not impact Mac and Linux hosts. · Is due to the CrowdStrike Falcon content update and not to malicious cyber activity ...

The boss of cyber-security firm Crowdstrike has admitted it could be "some time" before all systems are back up and running after an update from the company ...

CrowdStrike is operating normally, and this issue does not affect our Falcon platform systems. There is no impact to any protection if the Falcon sensor is ...

A defective software update led to major disruptions in aviation, banking and other industries as Microsoft 365 services were impacted worldwide.

The outages Friday were connected to "a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts," CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said in a statement​​.

A defective CrowdStrike kernel driver sent computers around the globe into a reboot death spiral, taking down air travel, hospitals, banks, and more with it ...

Head of the cybersecurity firm issues a public apology but cautions that a total recovery could take weeks.

Microsoft's “blue screen of death” hit businesses and governments around the world Friday. How one software update led to so much chaos.

The outages affected companies or individuals that use CrowdStrike on the Microsoft Windows platform: when they applied the update, the incompatible software ...

A global software outage Friday brought many computer systems across business, healthcare, technology and government sectors to a screeching halt in under ...

On July 18, CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update that began impacting IT systems globally.

As the world recovers from the largest IT outage in history, it shows the danger of one point of failure in IT infrastructure.

The glitch came from a cyber security company called CrowdStrike which sent out a corrupted software update to its huge number of customers. Microsoft, which is ...

Airports, hospitals, and banks said they were recovering after a failed software update delivered by the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to Microsoft's ...

Sensor configuration updates are an ongoing part of the protection mechanisms of the Falcon platform. This configuration update triggered a logic error ...