Get the latest tech news

What is CrowdStrike, and what happened?


The outage could take days to resolve.

CrowdStrike plays an important role in helping companies find and prevent security breaches, billing itself as having the “fastest mean time” to detect threats. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said on Friday that the company is “actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts” while emphasizing that the issue isn’t linked to a cyberattack. Systems are showing an error message that says, “It looks like Windows didn’t load correctly,” while giving users the option to try troubleshooting methods or restart the PC.

Get the Android app

Or read this on The Verge

Read more on:

Photo of CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike

Related news:

News photo

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

News photo

Second NHS IT system confirmed to be affected by CrowdStrike issues

News photo

Azure VMs ruined by CrowdStrike patchpocalypse? Microsoft has recovery tips