Here are details of Friday's global cyber outage
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According to an alert sent by CrowdStrike to its clients and reviewed by Reuters, its widely used “Falcon Sensor” software is causing Microsoft Windows to crash and display a blue screen, known informally as the “Blue Screen of Death”.The alert, which was sent at 0530 GMT on Friday, also shared a manual workaround to resolve the issue.“The damage to business processes at the global level is dramatic.
“It turns out that because the endpoints have crashed – the Blue Screen of Death – they cannot be updated remotely and the problem must be solved manually, endpoint by endpoint. This is expected to be a process that will take days,” he added.The global tech outage has affected operations in different sectors internationally including at Spanish airports, US airlines and Australian media and banks.
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