The shares of CrowdStrike, a US-based cybersecurity firm, fell by 11 per cent on Friday, July 19. The company lost over $9 million (₹75,300 crore approx.) of its market value due to the global tech outage that crashed Microsoft’s computer systems, reported Bloomberg. The report added that even after the drop CrowdStrike’s total worth stands at
A report added China doesn’t rely on outside infrastructure to support its daily operations. Microsoft’s global outage created havoc. From airline to broadcasting, the blue screen error, in a way, brought the daily operations to a standstill on Friday. Now, it has been reported that China remained largely unaffected by the outage. As per a
The internet users loved Delhi Police’s witty take on the matter. Windows users worldwide encountered the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error on Friday morning. Several users on the internet took to X to vent their frustration, while reports on Downdetector in India revealed a Microsoft service outage. Capitalizing on the downtime caused by
Co-founder and CEO of Zerodha, Nithin Kamath, said ‘almost the entire employee base uses Linux laptops,’ saved the day, while commenting on the Microsoft Windows outage that wreaked global havoc on July 19. While the Microsoft outage had disrupted 8.5 million Windows devices, causing ‘blue screen of death’ error, Mac and Linux hosts functioned normally.
Microsoft outage: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz got nervous and seemed uncomfortable, when questioned how a single update caused the ‘blue screen of death’ error for millions of Window users on July 19, Friday. A clip from the video has gone viral, as the CEO had to resort to gulps of water before he could answer
Washington: A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday. “We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines,” it said in the blog.
The outage disrupted Microsoft’s Windows systems worldwide A widespread technical malfunction originating from Microsoft’s Azure backend disrupted operations across airlines, banks, and major corporations globally on Friday, impacting services from customer communications to financial transactions. Amid the outage, an old interview of Apple co-found Steve Jobs criticising the tech giant’s products went viral on the internet.
San Francisco: Security experts said CrowdStrike’s routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients’ computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks before it was deployed. The latest version of its Falcon Sensor software was meant make CrowdStrike clients’ systems more secure against hacking by updating
The footage depicted the dramatic reduction in flight activity following the outage. A widespread technical malfunction originating from Microsoft’s Azure backend disrupted operations across airlines, banks, and major corporations globally on Friday, impacting services from customer communications to financial transactions. Due to ”communication issues”, the largest airlines worldwide grounded all flights early Friday morning, leading
Microsoft Chairman Satya Nadella said they are “working” to safely bring systems back online. San Francisco: US cybersecurity agency CISA has issued a warning that hackers are trying to take advantage of Microsoft outage for phishing and other malicious activity. Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said today that they are “working” to safely bring
Imagine a scene from Neuromancer: hackers breaking in, causing chaos with every keystroke. Now, flash back to this Friday. That sci-fi scenario? It’s suddenly not so fictional. A botched software update has just thrown real life into disarray. Planes grounded, emergency lines jammed, and check-in counters swamped with long, snaking lines of frustrated travellers. The
New Delhi: Air India, on Saturday, said that none of its flights was cancelled due to the massive CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage, barring some delays due to the impact of the outage on airport services. Hundreds of flights including those by Indigo, Air India, SpiceJet and Akasa Air were delayed and several were cancelled due to the