The American company Crowdstrike caused a massive global computer blackout on Friday, July 19 due to a failure in its computer system.
The failure was due to the group’s software update on the Windows operating systems of the giant Microsoft and caused chaos in numerous computer structures around the world, from airports to hospitals.
Crowdstrike, headquartered in Austin, United States, is currently a world leader in security for network-connected devices such as laptops, tablets and smartphones.
Faced with the chaos generated worldwide by this failure, the company CrowdStrike has released an emergency fix for Microsoft Windows 10 users affected by the rollout of an update of the Falcon Sensor antivirus agent for computers stuck on the so-called “blue screen of death”.
What caused the Microsoft computer crash?
A faulty update to the CrowdStrike computer security platform is the source of the flaw suffered in Microsoft systems that has affected companies around the world.
The company has admitted that a bug in an update to its CrowdStrike Falcon platformone of the Windows protection systems, has caused chaos.
According to computer experts who spoke to EFE, The latest Falcon driver update was buggy; Azure immediately crashed, the cloud computing platform created by Microsoft to build, test, deploy and manage applications and services using its global infrastructure.
This caused the appearance of the blue screens, known as “screens of death”which showed that systems had stopped working all over the world and that servers had to be restarted.
What were the consequences of the CrowdStrike error?
CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor update, which is responsible for “blocking attacks on systems while capturing and recording activity” to react to security vulnerabilities, has caused the collapse of systems connected to the Microsoft Windows system worldwide and continues to have serious consequences.
CrowdStrike’s downfall on Wall Street
CrowdStrike shares plummeted 12% and Microsoft shares fell 0.07% on Wall Street following the cybersecurity firm’s faulty update.
Ten minutes following the opening of the New York Stock Exchange, the shares of CrowdStrike, which is listed on the Nasdaq technology platform, was selling for $303 each, while Microsoft’s shares were priced at $440.
In the bars before the start of the day, The cybersecurity company fell 14% and Microsoft fell almost 3%.
Thousands of flights cancelled
The FlightAware internet platform reported a total of 27,075 flight delays globally on Friday, July 19.4,473 of which affect passengers to and from the United States.
It also reported a total of 2,819 flights cancelled globally, However, all these figures are changing minute by minute.
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