July 19, 2024
Uncovering the causes behind the global cyber outage
A global technology failure disrupted operations in many industries on Friday, grounding flights and forcing some broadcasters to go off the air as the outage disrupted everything from banks to healthcare systems. What happened; CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity company, is one of the most popular in the world, counting more than 20,000 subscribers worldwide.According to a notice sent by CrowdStrike to its customers and reviewed by Reuters, the widely used “Falcon Sensor” software causes Microsoft Windows to crash and display a blue screen, known informally as the “Blue Screen of Death.” The alert, which was sent at 05:30 GMT on


