Outage caused by CrowdStrike's disastrous update affected 8.5 million devices
The update left airlines, banks, and major companies facing the blue screen of death.
A faulty update from CrowdStrike caused a global outage on Friday. Microsoft reported that about 8.5 million Windows devices were affected. The update triggered the blue screen of death. Systems in hospitals, airlines, and banks were brought to a halt. Only Windows machines were hit.
By Friday afternoon, most issues were fixed. But Microsoft and CrowdStrike are still handling fallout. Microsoft's David Weston said they are working with CrowdStrike on a solution. They want to quickly fix CrowdStrike's faulty update. AWS and Google Cloud are also helping.
CrowdStrike explained the update in a blog post. It aimed to target malicious named pipes used in cyber attacks. But for Windows 7 and above, it triggered a logic error. This caused operating system crashes. Weston said less than one percent of Windows machines were affected.
A faulty update from CrowdStrike caused a global outage on Friday. Microsoft reported that about 8.5 million Windows devices were affected. The update triggered the blue screen of death. Systems in hospitals, airlines, and banks were brought to a halt. Only Windows machines were hit.
By Friday afternoon, most issues were fixed. But Microsoft and CrowdStrike are still handling fallout. Microsoft's David Weston said they are working with CrowdStrike on a solution. They want to quickly fix CrowdStrike's faulty update. AWS and Google Cloud are also helping.
CrowdStrike explained the update in a blog post. It aimed to target malicious named pipes used in cyber attacks. But for Windows 7 and above, it triggered a logic error. This caused operating system crashes. Weston said less than one percent of Windows machines were affected.