CrowdStrike update crashes Windows systems, causes outages worldwide
By Ionut Ilascu, Bleeping Computer A faulty component in the latest CrowdStrike Falcon update is crashing Windows systems, impacting various organizations and services across the world, including airports, TV stations, and hospitals. The glitch is affecting Windows workstations and servers, with users reporting massive outages that took offline entire companies and fleets of hundreds of thousands of computers. According to some reports, emergency services in the U.S. and Canada have also been impacted. Worldwide outage By the time of the correction, though, many large organizations across multiple verticals had already been affected. Some reports say that CrowdStrike’s update impacted some 911 emergency service agencies in the state of New York (EMS, police, fire department), Alaska, and Arizona, as well as 911 services in parts of Canada. A 911 telecommunicator in Illinois said that they were “working off of paper until things come back.” There also reports that the health hotlin...