Global Disruption: Microsoft-CrowdStrike Outage Hits Flights, Hospitals
On Friday, a significant, ongoing IT disruption disrupted hospitals, banks, airports, airlines, and broadcasters worldwide. The CrowdStrike issue impacted thousands of Windows PCs that are critical to many organizations’ internet operations. The outage was caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which maintains security for a large number of Windows PCs and services…