Thousands of flights have been grounded, airports are in disarray, customers have been unable to access their banking or pay for goods using cards, patients unable to see doctors or have surgeries, and the list goes on.
Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike has since admitted that the cause of the outage was a 'defect' in a Windows software update. ITs CEO George Kurtz said that the companys engineers were working to resolve the issue had found a fix.
Launched in 2012, the cybersecurity firm claims to offer customers the worlds most advanced cloud-native platform to detect and block hacking threats.According to its website, the company provides services to 298 companies on the Fortune500 list, as well as top tech and automotive companies and healthcare providers.
While the company has found a solution to fix the error, it will take some time as each user has to be contacted individually. It is not simple the case of pressing a key to automatically update every user.
Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue appears to be with a Windows update of its Falcon Sensor software which is causing Blue Screens of Death (BSODs), an error message which appears on Windows systems when the computers activity is interrupted and reverts instead to a blue screen.
