A number of airlines’ computer systems are crashing, causing flight delays and other problems due to an update of the cybersecurity platform for Windows.
Many users woke up this morning to bad news in the middle of the summer holidays due to the crash of several companies’ computer systems. In particular, the latest CrowdStrike update appears to be behind the freezing of Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, the most widely used at the corporate level. Banks, airport and airline operators, online retailers, insurance companies, emergency and transport services, energy companies, and more are all being affected world-wide.
CrowdStrike is the cloud-based cybersecurity platform that serves many of these Windows-based companies. The Texas company has no direct relationship with the Washington one, but it is the firm that corporations rely, or used to rely, on to, ironically, protect them from cyberattacks and other digital security threats.
The problem this time, however, has not been the hackers, but the stability of the software itself.
