Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue on startup today, affecting banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, supermarkets and many more businesses around the world. A faulty update from cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike is knocking affected PCs and servers offline, forcing them into a recovery boot loop, so the machines can’t start properly. The problem isn’t being caused by Microsoft, but by third-party software CrowdStrike, which is widely used by many businesses around the world to manage the security of Windows PCs and servers.
Australian banks, airlines and television networks were the first to sound the alarm when thousands of machines began to go offline. The problems spread quickly as European-based companies began their workday. British broadcaster Sky News was the first to sound the alarm. x.com/davidgrayrhodes/status/1814192421921534187″>Cannot be transmitted Your morning news bulletins for hours this morning and it was displaying a message apologizing for “the interruption of this transmission.” Ryanair, one of Europe’s largest airlines, also He says he is experiencing a “third-party” computer problem that is affecting flight departures.
