July 19, 2024 at 07:01AM
Major outages are reported worldwide, potentially caused by a flawed update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. Windows systems experience a Blue Screen of Death due to a recent CrowdStrike Falcon sensor update. Workarounds are being recommended, but the incident is causing problems for airports and other organizations. This incident is causing a significant global impact.
Key takeaways from the meeting notes:
– Organizations worldwide experiencing major outages possibly caused by a bad update pushed out by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.
– CrowdStrike is investigating reports of Windows hosts experiencing Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) after the latest update and is in the process of reverting changes that may have caused the issue.
– The BSOD appears to be caused by a recent CrowdStrike Falcon sensor update, leading to inoperable devices entering BSOD loops.
– A workaround involving booting systems in Safe Mode and deleting a CrowdStrike component is being recommended.
– Major outages have been reported by airports, banks, media outlets, and hospitals. CrowdStrike incident is blamed for technical issues with flights at major airports, including American Airlines.
– Google Cloud reported an incident affecting its Compute Engine due to Windows VMs using Crowdstrike’s csagent.sys crashing and rebooting unexpectedly.
– Reputable cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont points out that the global IT outage is caused by CrowdStrike, not Microsoft, and could be the biggest cyber incident worldwide in terms of impact.
– The situation is ongoing and still a developing story.
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