Major outages at CrowdStrike, Microsoft leave the world with BSODs and confusion

Major outages at CrowdStrike, Microsoft leave the world with BSODs and confusion

Millions of people outside the IT industry are learning what CrowdStrike is today, and that’s a real bad thing. Meanwhile, Microsoft is also catching blame for global network outages, and between the two, it’s unclear as of Friday morning just who caused what.

After cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike shipped an update to its Falcon Sensor software that protects mission-critical systems, blue screens of death (BSODs) started taking down Windows-based systems. The problems started in Australia and followed the dateline from there.

 

Major outages at CrowdStrike, Microsoft leave the world with BSODs and confusion

Major outages at CrowdStrike, Microsoft leave the world with BSODs and confusion

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Major outages at CrowdStrike, Microsoft leave the world with BSODs and confusion
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