Short-form YouTube commentary by Caitlin Sarian describing a widespread IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike Falcon sensor content update. The update reportedly caused blue screens and service disruptions across many large organizations (banks, airlines, emergency services); CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz tweeted the issue was identified, isolated, and is not a security incident while fixes are being deployed.
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While you were sleeping. The largest IT fail, as quoted by Elon Musk, happened causing massive worldwide IT outages. And this IT issue has caused thousands of flights to be canceled, 911 to be down, payroll to not be paid. Banks have issues. Here's what happened. Basically, CrowdStrike, which is a massive cyber security company, had pushed an update to their Falcon sensor, which was a sensor that helped prevent cyber security attacks. This content update was supposed to refresh the cyber security software, but instead it caused a whole slew of issues. Before we continue, follow for more content like this. Since CrowdStrike is a very popular cybersecurity company, many people use it like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft 365, eBay, Visa, AT&T. Chase, Wells Fargo, TD Bank, US Bank. All these companies reported bugs and glitches in the system. Today, the CEO of CrowdStrike, George Kurtz, tweeted that CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by the defect found in the single content update. This this doesn't affect Mac or Linux hosts and he states that this is not a security incident or a cyber attack. Issue has been identified and isolated and a fix has been deployed. But fixing these machines is really not that simple because there are hundreds and thousands of machines that need to be fixed. Now, even though it's been complete chaos for most people, especially with the blue screen of death, many people are saying that by tomorrow this will all be resolved. Stay tuned, follow for more, and definitely share this with a friend.
