Delta’s CEO said that the CrowdStrike outage cost the airline $500 million in 5 days
Delta Airlines has sued Microsoft’s cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike over the software outage last month which led to thousands of flight cancellations. Delta’s CEO Ed Bastian said, “If you want priority access to the Delta, you need to fix the flaw in CrowdStrike’s deployment processes.” “You can’t come into a mission-critical 24/7 operation and tell us we have a bug,” he added.
The world’s computers crashed because of a bad CrowdStrike Update
A security firm CrowdStrike said a recent update to a sensor configuration in Windows systems caused the global outages. It said the update, which was downloaded from 04:09 am to 05:25 pm (IST), caused a system crash that was caused by an OS crash. The update is not a kernel driver but is responsible for “how Falcon evaluates named pipes”, it added.
CrowdStrike Update crashed the world’s computers
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz in an interview said, “We are working with customers impacted by the defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts.” He added, “The issue is not linked to a cyberattack.” Earlier on Friday, millions of machines globally were unable to run Windows operating system because of a bug in CrowdStrike’s software.
Banks, airlines and broadcasters are being offline due to a major Windows BSOD issue
Several global organisations are facing outages due to a bug in CrowdStrike’s Windows software update that caused many IT issues. UK-based Sky News has said its morning news bulletins are currently unable to be broadcast and that it is experiencing a “third party” IT issue. Ryanair, one of the biggest airlines in Europe, also said it’s experiencing a “third-party” IT issue.