How one company's mistake took down computers around the globe

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Published 2024-07-19
CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm based in Texas, has said that a global technology outage affecting banks, hospitals and other industries was caused by a defect in one of its security updates. “This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed,” the company said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press.

The outage, on Friday morning, caused widespread disruptions to computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems, The Verge reported. Specifically, the update took the computers offline, then caused them to be stuck in a “recovery boot loop” which prevented their systems from restarting right away, according to the outlet. KTLA's Samantha Cortese reports. July 19, 2024.

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All Comments (8)
  • @johndicarlo225
    Pfft, there's a DR (disaster recovery) plan for all businesses to leave a spare bunch of PCs with the update service disabled in a cupboard in case of an outage for many years...
  • @RandyAinsworth-tx6vn
    dont push code to production on fridays, also crasy that the program for cybersecurity operates on the kernel level so if something happens to the program it affecting whole OS, Linux and Apple OS safe from this, ironic
  • @TuxBearlux
    Sure … not a cyber attack 😉 Great Cover up … like Mission Impossible Movie 🎥
  • @bloodz0r
    Huak tuah spit on dat thing 😮‍💨