A single defect in cyber security software took down everything from airports to 9-1-1 call centers
WASHINGTON - A global outage of the security software CrowdStrike is affecting everything from international flights to global banks to average businesses around the world Friday morning. Systems are slowly returning to normal, but the effects of the outage will reverberate for the rest of the day, especially for the travelers stranded in airports by thousands of canceled flights, Erin Marquis writes for Jalopnik. Continue reading original article.
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
22 July 2024 - Approximately 1,800 flights were canceled in the U.S. on Friday as Microsoft 365 apps and services went down. The IT giant said the issues were related to an update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
"Earlier today, a CrowdStrike update was responsible for bringing down a number of IT systems globally," Microsoft said in a statement to CBS News.
Microsoft said later on Friday via its social media channels that the company had ""completed our mitigation actions and our telemetry indicates all previously impacted Microsoft 365 apps and services have recovered. We're entering a period of monitoring to ensure impact is fully resolved."
"CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted," CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said on social media. "This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed."
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