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Update glitch?
www.aljazeera.com
A massive technology outage has disrupted businesses and institutions in multiple countries, throwing airports, airlines, rail companies, government services, banks, stock exchanges, supermarkets, telecoms, health systems and media outlets into chaos.
The cause of the outage was not immediately clear, but it came hours after Microsoft said it was addressing an issue affecting access to Microsoft 365 apps and services.
Some experts attributed the disruption to CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm whose software is used by industries around the world to protect against hackers and outside breaches.
The problem appeared to result in crashes of machines running Microsoft Windows operating system. CrowdStrike said in a recorded phone message that it was aware of reports of Microsoft’s Windows operating system crashing.
“It has been a quite extraordinarily dysfunctional, disruptive morning from an IT point of view – or indeed mid-afternoon if you’re in Australia where the first signs of a real problem began to emerge, said Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull, speaking from London.
“Essentially it happens as you’re sitting in front of your terminal. If your terminal is a Microsoft Windows terminal, it suddenly goes to a blank blue screen. It’s called the ‘blue-screen-of-death’ error. You are locked out of your operating system.
“The big question of course is: ‘Is this some sort of massive tech breakdown or something more sinister, a hugely debilitating global cyberattack?’” The weight of evidence appeared to point to the former, he said.
“CrowdStrike seems to have had some sort of mandatory update to its software that went horribly wrong,” he said. The company had reported that the issue was related to its ‘Falcon’ sensor product, engineers identifying a “content deployment problem”, said Hull.
Global IT outage causes chaos, disrupting airlines, banks, media, telecoms
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says outage caused by ‘defect’ in software update, rules out ‘cyber incident’.
A massive technology outage has disrupted businesses and institutions in multiple countries, throwing airports, airlines, rail companies, government services, banks, stock exchanges, supermarkets, telecoms, health systems and media outlets into chaos.
The cause of the outage was not immediately clear, but it came hours after Microsoft said it was addressing an issue affecting access to Microsoft 365 apps and services.
end of listSome experts attributed the disruption to CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm whose software is used by industries around the world to protect against hackers and outside breaches.
The problem appeared to result in crashes of machines running Microsoft Windows operating system. CrowdStrike said in a recorded phone message that it was aware of reports of Microsoft’s Windows operating system crashing.
“It has been a quite extraordinarily dysfunctional, disruptive morning from an IT point of view – or indeed mid-afternoon if you’re in Australia where the first signs of a real problem began to emerge, said Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull, speaking from London.
“Essentially it happens as you’re sitting in front of your terminal. If your terminal is a Microsoft Windows terminal, it suddenly goes to a blank blue screen. It’s called the ‘blue-screen-of-death’ error. You are locked out of your operating system.
“The big question of course is: ‘Is this some sort of massive tech breakdown or something more sinister, a hugely debilitating global cyberattack?’” The weight of evidence appeared to point to the former, he said.
“CrowdStrike seems to have had some sort of mandatory update to its software that went horribly wrong,” he said. The company had reported that the issue was related to its ‘Falcon’ sensor product, engineers identifying a “content deployment problem”, said Hull.
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