Bad CrowdStrike update causes major outages of Microsoft systems worldwide

You'll doubtless be aware already of the major outages of Microsoft systems today causing problems for airports, rail operators, banks, retailers, broadcasters and more. Among the disruption stores found themselves unable to accept payments and in the UK Sky News’s breakfast show was taken off air. Some airports were forced to use whiteboards to show flight departure information. The problem it transpires is not because of a cyberattack or something caused by Microsoft itself. Instead it was an update to widely-used security software CrowdStrike that was causing computers to crash. Cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont revealed on X that the issues… [Continue Reading]