CrowdStrike

Devices at the ABC, Foxtel, the Commonwealth Bank and many more have been impacted by blue screens of death on Windows PCs around the country.

A major IT outage is affecting millions of people across Australia and globally, with banks, airlines and media companies facing issues.

The issue seems widespread, affecting machines running various CrowdStrike sensor versions. CrowdStrike has acknowledged the problem and is currently ...

A global outage has hit cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, affecting several government agencies and Australian companies, The Australian reported on Friday, ...

Cybersecurity software firm Crowdstrike has posted in its support updates that it has identified the issue behind today's massive global Windows outage. It is ...

A widespread CrowdStrike outage is affecting the nation's supermarkets, banks, telecommunications companies and other businesses on Friday afternoon.

The outage appears to be an issue with Crowdstrike, an American cybersecurity technology company. Professor of cybersecurity at Monash University Nigel Phair said while it is too early to know for sure, the major disruptions appear " ...

CrowdStrike faces global BSOD issues after a recent update. Users worldwide, including on Reddit, report widespread outages and critical errors.

Workers around the country have been locked out of their computers following a widespread IT outage on Friday afternoon.

A cyber outage related to an issue at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike and Microsoft hit media, retailers, banks, airlines and telecoms companies ...

Airlines, banks and broadcasters reported disruptions, citing technical issues.

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike suffered a major outage on Friday, the company told NBC, which impacted businesses globally.

The Register has found numerous accounts of Windows 10 PCs crashing, displaying the Blue Screen of Death, then being unable to reboot. “We're seeing BSOD Org ...

The news: Banks, media and tech platforms across Australia have been hit with a simultaneous outage.

CrowdStrike has deployed a new content update that resolves the previously erroneous update and subsequent host issues impacting major global organisations ...

A software outage on Friday crippled the nation's airlines, banks and supermarkets, leaving flights grounded and newsreaders scrambling to fill air time.

There's been chaos across New Zealand due to a global IT outage on Friday . The issue is believed to have been caused by an update by cybersecurity firm...

A CrowdStrike update is breaking computers running Windows, causing them to crash and display the Blue Screen of Death. Companies around the world have been ...

Australia's home affairs ministry and American Airlines have both said the outage appeared to be related to an issue at global cyber-security firm Crowdstrike.

A series of technical glitches disrupted services at airlines, banks and the London Stock Exchange on Friday, an unusually widespread cascade of failures ...

Enterprises across Australia and the world are struggling to cope with a huge software outage – but your home computer is probably safe.

A software update from cybersecurity company Crowdstrike appears to have inadvertently disrupted IT systems globally.

The global outage impacted a raft of Australian companies and government agencies, causing many computers to attempt to restart and display a blue-screen error ...

A New Zealand tech expert says billions of dollars and hours of productivity could be lost after a global IT outage downed banking services, disrupted...

An update to Falcon software by the cyber security company CrowdStrike has caused an unprecedented global IT outage. So, what is it exactly?

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says a global tech outage affecting various businesses was caused by a "defect" in a "single content update" for Windows hosts.

The global computer outage affecting airports, banks and other businesses on Friday appears to stem at least partly from a software update issued by major ...

Cyber-security firm Crowdstrike has admitted that the problem was caused by an update to its Falcon antivirus software, designed to protect Microsoft Windows ...

What is Crowdstrike? The cybersecurity firm appears to be linked to a global tech outage impacting many industries Friday morning.

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 ...

Companies across several industries including airlines, banking and media were hit on Friday by a global tech outage tied to Microsoft's Azure cloud ...

The cybersecurity firm has lost about $12.5 billion in value after a 'defect' in its software update hit banks, shops, hospitals, and airports worldwide.

CrowdStrike is the leader in next-generation endpoint protection, threat intelligence and response services. CrowdStrike's core technology, the Falcon platform, ...

A faulty software update from cybersecurity vendor Crowdstrike crippled countless Microsoft Windows computers across the globe today, disrupting everything ...

It remains to be seen whether a software glitch that disrupted transactions worldwide is still impacting NZ businesses.

By Martin Coulter and James Pearson, Reuters. Display screens showing information on flights reflect error messages amid global IT outage at the Indira.

Impacts Windows 10 and later systems. · Does not impact Mac and Linux hosts. · Is due to the CrowdStrike Falcon content update and not to malicious cyber activity ...

A defective software update led to major disruptions in aviation, banking and other industries as Microsoft 365 services were impacted worldwide.

The boss of cyber-security firm Crowdstrike has admitted it could be "some time" before all systems are back up and running after an update from the company ...

Kiwi supermarkets are open and operating without difficulties this morning after a global IT outage described as the worst in history crippled the globe.

CrowdStrike is operating normally, and this issue does not affect our Falcon platform systems. There is no impact to any protection if the Falcon sensor is ...

The outages Friday were connected to "a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts," CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said in a statement​​.

The true extent of the global IT outage will continue to be felt for days, with the serious consequences similar to a ransomware attack the system is...

Opportunistic “malicious cyber actors” are trying to take advantage of the global IT outage to rip off unsuspecting users online, the National Cyber ...

Some customers were getting "quite agitated" as payment systems went down in the global cyber outage.

Head of the cybersecurity firm issues a public apology but cautions that a total recovery could take weeks.

Security experts said CrowdStrike's routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software did not undergo adequate quality checks before it was deployed.

By Friday morning, the situation turned into a perfect storm when the security firm CrowdStrike released a flawed software update that sent Windows computers ...