So far, the mass tech outage has sparked delays and issues at most major European airports, including London’s Gatwick Airport, Berlin Airport, Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, Scotland’s Edinburgh Airport, airports in Madrid, Barcelona, and others across Spain, as well as Prague Airport,CNNreported on Friday (July 19).
While evidence points to a software update blunder, a spokesperson for Australia’s Home Affairs minister said earlier that the outage appeared to be related to an issue at global cyber-security firm Crowdstrike, theBBCreported on Friday.
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Australia’s national cyber security coordinator described it as a “large-scale technical outage” and reportedly said there was no information to suggest it was an attack.
United Airlines told theBBC: “A third-party software outage is impactingcomputersystems worldwide, including at United.”
There have been reports suggesting that Crowdstrike, which produces antivirus software, issued a software update that caused Windows devices to crash.
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As of Friday 11:10 CET, Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz reportedly said that the IT issue causing a global outage has been identified and that a fix has been deployed.
“Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident orcyber attack.
“The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed.”
Microsoft is currently investigating, stating it is taking “mitigation action”
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It further read: “We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website.
“We further recommend organizations ensure they’re communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels.
“Our team is fully mobilized to ensure the security and stability of CrowdStrike customers.”
The first reports of IT outages came from Australia, as payment systems went down at local stores, including Woolworths, whilefinancial institutionssuch as the National Australia Bank were also affected, as per theBBC.
The outage appeared to be related to an issue at global cyber-security firm Crowdstrike
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The issues then spread to theUS, with the state of Alaska warning that its emergency services were affected, eventually leading to several US airlines — United, Delta, and American Airlines — grounding their flights around the globe.
Tokyo-Narita and Delhi airports also said their services had been affected.
CrowdStrike’s engineers took action to address the problem, according to the advisory, which told customers to reboot their computers and perform other actions if they were still having technical issues,CNNreported.
CrowdStrike’s engineers took action to address the problem
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The issue is specific to Falcon, one of CrowdStrike’s main software products, and it is not impacting Mac or Linux operating systems, according to the advisory.
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