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A glitch with Microsoft Windows on Friday reportedly hit global businesses and institutions, disrupting critical services — including airlines, banks, and stock exchanges — across the world.

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The massive IT outage canceled at least 500 US flights, affected operations at London's Stock Exchange, grounded Sky News, and impacted Europe's medical facilities.

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Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said that the outage had been caused by "a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts," adding it was neither a security incident nor a cyberattack.

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CrowdStrike's Chief Executive Officer George Kurtz said that the underlying issue — caused by an update to CrowdStrike's 'Falcon Sensor' — has been isolated, and a fix has been deployed.

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Meanwhile, Microsoft 365 said it was "working on rerouting the impacted traffic to alternate systems to alleviate impact" and is "observing a positive trend in service availability."

In its last earnings report, CrowdStrike said it had nearly 24K customers, indicating the number of individual endpoints could be enormous.

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This outage isn't unique; such incidents have occurred in the past and will likely happen again. Software updates and bug fixes are crucial to prevent all types of cyberattacks, and ensure that systems run smoothly and efficiently. CrowdStrike is actively working with impacted customers, and there's a workaround. However, since it would need to be applied manually, this could take hours, but users' systems will get back up and running very soon.

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