A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air on Friday in a massive disruption that affected companies and services around the world and highlighted dependence on software from a handful of providers.
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00:00Thousands of Windows machines experienced a tech issue this morning that caused worldwide outages.
00:04The problem has been attributed to a faulty software update by CrowdStrike, a global
00:09cybersecurity firm that caters to Fortune 500 companies, the healthcare industry and manufacturers,
00:16and any company that really wants to protect their systems against data breaches and or hackers.
00:21They also provide digital forensic services for companies who have been hacked. The outage itself
00:26has caused PCs to go into a strange sort of boot loop which has caused them to function
00:34improperly. Both CrowdStrike and Microsoft say they are working with customers to fix the issue
00:40now and you can see that services are slowly starting to come back online.