CrowdStrike on outage: ‘Bad actors will try to exploit events like this’
Editor’s note: Check out our oft-updated live blog for all new developments about the Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage. It was a truly awful day for CrowdStrike. There’s almost zero chance you missed it, but, in case you did, an issue with a software update from the cybersecurity firm caused a meltdown of the world’s IT infrastructure, putting […]
How did one CrowdStrike mistake stop the world?
Editor’s note: Check out our oft-updated live blog for all new developments about the Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage. Updating your system is imperative to keeping it safe from cyber attacks and other threats. But sometimes it goes wrong — like it did late this week. CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company that protects companies and users from cyberattacks, made […]
Instagram users can add disappearing Notes to Reels and posts now
Instagram is cluttering up our feeds again as the app expands its Notes feature directly to grid posts and Reels. Why? Because apparently commenting on posts isn’t enough. SEE ALSO: Microsoft outage updates: Crowdstrike issue still wreaking havoc despite fix Now users can add tiny floating Notes bubbles, which disappear in three days unless deleted, […]
UPS and FedEx packages might be delayed because of the CrowdStrike outage
Editor’s note: Check out our oft-updated live blog for all new developments about the Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage. You’ll have to bear with FedEX and UPS. It’s probably hard to coordinate deliveries when every computer simultaneously crashes because of a CrowdStrike bug. That may not be a literal description of what happened to UPS and FedEx on […]
X users react to the CrowdStrike outage with glee and disappointment
Editor’s note: Check out our oft-updated live blog for all new developments about the Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage. On Thursday, a Microsoft outage linked to a failed CrowdStrike update affected industry giants across travel and finance, and underscored the risks of our dependence on digital technology. As people flooded into work this morning — and CrowdStrike scrambled […]
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella drops statement about CrowdStrike outage
Editor’s note: Check out our oft-updated live blog for all new developments about the Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage. On Friday morning, nearly every Microsoft Windows machine in the world seemed to suffer from outages related to a faulty CrowdStrike software update that rolled out on Thursday. Now, the head of Microsoft has issued a statement — but […]
Microsoft outage: 6 industries affected by the CrowdStrike update fail
Windows PCs around the entire planet crashed this morning because of a CrowdStrike update glitch. You may have heard about it. But what you may not have heard about is just how many services have been affected by the biggest global IT outage in years. It’s not quite a Y2K level of apocalyptic meltdown, but […]
How long will the Microsoft outage last? The CrowdStrike CEO warns it could take a while.
Much of the world woke up Friday discovering much of the internet wasn’t working due to an outage caused by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. And, unfortunately, it doesn’t appear like the problems will be totally fixed for quite some time. Now, if it’s just your personal Windows computer that’s affected, there appears to be a workaround. […]
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Which banks were affected by the Microsoft outage? What we know.
Windows computers are seeing the Blue Screen of Death, flights are being grounded, and websites are down, all because of an update gone wrong from CrowdStrike. “CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor,” CrowdStrike wrote in an alert at 1:30 a.m. ET on Friday. “Symptoms include experiencing […]