Today, an ongoing IT outage global in scale is currently causing widespread disruptions throughout services for airlines, TV networks, and banks as a reported error with CrowdStrike’s security software has plunged PCs, servers, and enterprise terminals into chaos.What is CrowdStrike?CrowdStrike, the name at the center of today’s widespread issues, isn’t a virus or cyber threat.Instead, CrowdStrike is a security company tasked with preventing internet breaches against some of the world’s largest companies — including Microsoft, who use the brand’s Falcon software as a part of the Windows platform.It’s currently believed that an update to the Falcon software is responsible for today’s issues and a fix has been deployed to hopefully resolve the issue.The issue, initially surfacing after widespread reports from Australia, is now being experienced across the UK and Europe, with those in the US waking up to find similar issues in what may be the biggest global IT outage in recent history.Today’s outage is so widespread that there are service disruptions affecting everything from entire TV networks to local business owners who reply on larger companies such as banks or credit card companies who are currently experiencing issues.While these errors are unlikely to directly affect personal computers, you may experience knock on effects of businesses currently being impacted by today’s outage.With banks also facing issues, app access or online services may also be affected, as too could stores and supermarkets be as payment problems are another potential issue. In Australia, stores are reportedly closing due to checkout terminals also suffering from BSoD issues.Airlines seem to have been most affected with flight disruptions reportedly taking place in around the globe, with Delta, United, and American Airlines grounding flights in the US over reported communication issues.Windows/CrowdStrike outage: What we know so farA global computing issue has impacted businesses, services, airlines, TV networks, and banks in what may be the largest IT outage in recent history. Security analysts suspect an update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon software to be the likely cause of the ongoing outage. Windows computers, servers, and terminals are being hampered by Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) errors for the issue ‘DRIVER_OVERRAN_STACK_BUFFER’ The outage currently affects everything from entire TV networks to small businesses that rely on larger companies such as banks or credit providers for transactions.A fix has been deployed, but problems remain as the world plays catch-up to the effects of the fault.
