Microsoft IT outages hit worldwide after faulty update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike A faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike led to outages worldwide on Friday, causing thousands of Microsoft Windows-based systems and endpoints that downloaded the update to crash. Airports, banks, health and media organizations were among those to face the "Blue Screen of Death," BSOD, rendering systems unable to reboot or function properly. The issue originated from an update to CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor security product, which the company is working to roll back. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz sought to assure the public that this was not a security incident or cyberattack. 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," Kurtz said. "The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed," he added. Polygon Labs CISO Mudit Gupta stated on X that while it uses CrowdStrike technology, it wasn't impacted because "we don't roll out non-critical updates to our staff before testing them." "In any case, Polygon networks are decentralized. Even if Polygon Labs get affected in such an IT incident, nothing will be impacted on Polygon networks," he said. The incident sparked discussions about the vulnerabilities in the highly interconnected and digitalized nature of the global economy. CrowdStrike's share price is down around 10% on Friday following the incident. READ FULL ARTICLE : 🔗 URL