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A CrowdStrike update crashed the world's computers. What comes next?

July 19, 2024  |   by Julian L. Mertz  |   No comments
Chaos continues at airports, hospitals, banks and more, thanks to Windows crashing worldwide.

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Airports, banks, TV stations, health care organizations, hotels, and countless other businesses are still reeling from widespread IT outages, leaving flights grounded and causing untold disruption. The cause? A software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike that crashed Windows machines across the globe.

Only a handful of times in history has a single piece of code managed to instantly wreck computer systems worldwide. This time, the ongoing digital catastrophe appears to have been triggered not by malicious code released by hackers but by the software designed to stop them.

Here's how it happened, how it's impacting the world, and where we go from here.

 
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How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World's Computers

BY LILY HAY NEWMAN, MATT BURGESS, AND ANDY GREENBERG | 6-MINUTE READ

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. Here's how that's possible.

 
 
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Why the Global Crowdstrike Outage Hit Airports So Hard

BY AARIAN MARSHALL | 3-MINUTE READ

The aviation industry is optimized within an inch of its life. A bad software update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike took down computers running Microsoft Windows—and a cascade of airports with it.

 

 
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Hospitals Around the World Are Struggling in the Aftermath of the Great IT Meltdown

BY DAVID COX | 5-MINUTE READ

Doctors find themselves without critical systems and diagnostic tools and faced with the daunting reality that a full recovery could take days after CrowdStrike's botched deployment of a software update.

 

 
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Don't Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams

BY LILY HAY NEWMAN | 2-MINUTE READ

Swindlers are spinning up bogus websites in an attempt to dupe people with "CrowdStrike support" scams following the security firm's catastrophic software update.

 

 
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The Global CrowdStrike Outage Triggered a Surprise Return to Cash

BY CAROLINE HASKINS | 2-MINUTE READ

The event caused chaos at airports, grocery stores, and Starbucks outlets.

 

 
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How It Started: Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World

BY MATT BURGESS | 4-MINUTE READ

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

 

 

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Earlier this week, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown was officially released on the Nintendo Switch by Bandai Namco. The game originally released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC more than 5 years ago, in early 2019. That said, you may be wondering how well …
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Earlier this week, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown was officially released on the Nintendo Switch by Bandai Namco. The game originally released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC more than 5 years ago, in early 2019. That said, you may be wondering how well the game is running on Nintendo's hybrid console. That's where […]

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