What actually happened inside the CrowdStrike
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On Friday, Microsoft Windows computer users around the world experienced their computers turning blue. The reason for this is an update from Microsoft which was released by CrowdStrike. Due to this update, almost all emergency services worldwide are down, and people everywhere are facing issues like blue screens and system crashes.
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Calling the Microsoft outage on Friday a global outage would not be incorrect because this outage has caused problems all over the world today. All emergency services around the world are down, whether it's banks or flights, everything has come to a halt. Even the stock exchange has been affected by this.
This outage is considered the biggest outage to date, and it is all happening due to a Microsoft update released by CrowdStrike, which is an American cybersecurity firm.
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According to reports, the main product of CrowdStrike behind this outage is Falcon, which has encountered a major technical error.
What CrowdStrike said: - CrowdStrike, accepting their mistake, has said that their engineers are trying to fix the issue quickly. They also mentioned that they will inform us as soon as everything is fixed.
CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We…
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