{"id":835534,"date":"2024-07-20T11:39:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T06:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=835534"},"modified":"2024-07-20T11:39:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T06:09:22","slug":"microsoft-outage-former-crowdstrike-employee-says-his-little-update-caused-global-disruption-satire-or-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/20\/microsoft-outage-former-crowdstrike-employee-says-his-little-update-caused-global-disruption-satire-or-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft outage: \u2018Former Crowdstrike employee\u2019 says his &#8216;little update\u2019 caused global disruption, satire or real?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The global Microsoft outage on Friday caused many employees to hilariously celebrate the \u201cBlue Screen of Death\u201d Day with disrupted IT operations across services. With banks, airlines, media outlets and other institutions facing the worst end of the unprecedented worldwide IT lockdown, cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike later assured users that we weren\u2019t under a malicious cyberattack. The widespread outages around the globe were believed to be linked to a software update gone wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz released a statement, saying they had discovered the \u201cdefect.\u201d \u201cThis is not a security incident or cyberattack,\u201d Kurtz wrote on X\/Twitter. \u201cThe issue has been identified, isolated, and a fix has been deployed,\u201d he added, signalling how a corrupted content update for Windows caused the breakdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global Microsoft outage on Friday caused many employees to hilariously celebrate the \u201cBlue Screen of Death\u201d Day with disrupted IT operations across services. With banks, airlines, media outlets and other institutions facing the worst end of the unprecedented worldwide IT lockdown, cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike later assured users that we weren\u2019t under a malicious cyberattack. The widespread outages around the globe were believed to be linked to a software update gone wrong. Hours later, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz released a statement, saying they had discovered the \u201cdefect.\u201d \u201cThis is not a security incident or cyberattack,\u201d Kurtz wrote on X\/Twitter. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}