Microsoft outage LIVE updates: Bank, airport, media outlet services hit globally

Microsoft outage LIVE updates: According to Delhi airport officials, IndiGo airlines cancelled 40 flights from the airport due to the outage.

Microsoft outage LIVE updates: “Yesterday, CrowdStrike released an update that began impacting IT systems globally. We are aware of this issue and are working closely with CrowdStrike and across the industry to provide customers technical guidance and support to safely bring their systems back online,” tweets Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Microsoft outage Live updates: “The Department, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (@CISAgov) are working with CrowdStrike, Microsoft and our federal, state, local and critical infrastructure partners to fully assess and address system outages,” Department of Homeland Security, United States, posts on X.

Microsoft outage Live updates: “President Joe Biden has been briefed on the CrowdStrike global tech outage. His team is engaged across the interagency to get sector by sector updates throughout the day and is standing by to provide assistance as needed,” according to a White House official

Microsoft outage Live updates: “”One, no impact to Wipro. Two, we are actually talking to the clients, trying to step up and help them because we are following the sun model — Europe and the US — and we are seeing the impact of cloud strike (there). We are ramping up ourselves to help our clients,” Pallia said during the company’s June quarter earnings press conference.

Microsoft outage Live updates: Microsoft 365 Admin Centre now available, reports Reuters.

Microsoft outage Live updates: Global tech outage caused by Crowdstrike’s software bug led to disruptions worldwide. Here’s what you need to know about the company.

Microsoft outage Live updates: Microsoft has said a resolution for Windows devices is “forthcoming”, but said a third party was at fault after it issued an update. The company said, “We are aware of an issue affecting Windows devices due to an update from a third party software platform. We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming.”

A spokesperson added, “We acknowledge the impact this can have on customers, and we are working to restore services for those still experiencing disruptions as quickly as possible.”

Microsoft outage Live updates: Sundareshwar K, Partner & Leader – Cybersecurity, PwC India, told Hindustan Times, “This is a black swan event impacting not just businesses but the overall national machinery, and underscores how safeguarding entities against risk involves much more than technology. This development highlights how it is a misnomer that enhanced technology deployment alone will help organisations become more secure and ensure business continuity. While organisations work towards remediation of the current situation, the focus should be on rethinking risks and moving beyond the layers, patches, products and tools to building an inherently strong cyber architecture with complementary interventions that ensure resilience in the face of such unforeseen technology setbacks or failures.”

Microsoft outage Live updates: A global IT outage has caused massive disruption to various services. The chief executive of IT security firm CrowdStrike apologised for the technical problems. This is not a security incident or cyber attack, according to the firm. Microsoft says that the underlying cause of the outage has been fixed, although the residual impact is still affecting some Office 365 apps and services.

Microsoft outage Live updates: The RBI said, “Overall, the Indian financial sector in the Reserve Bank’s domain remains insulated from the global outage.”

Microsoft outage Live updates: Maruti Suzuki said it immediately initiated precautionary and remedial measures “and production/despatch operations were briefly halted”. Read more

Microsoft outage Live updates: Premier League football club Brentford FC has apologised to fans for ticketing issues caused by today’s IT issues. It said, “Due to an issue with third-party software affecting businesses globally, Brentford FC’s Ticketmaster platform is currently experiencing technical difficulties.”

Microsoft outage Live updates: Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz attributes global IT outage to a faulty content update, apologizes for disruptions, and assures issue has been fixed. Read here

Microsoft outage Live updates: Microsoft said that the underlying cause for outage of its 365 apps and services has been fixed but residual impact of cybersecurity outages are continuing to affect some customers.

Microsoft outage Live updates: Kumar Ritesh, CEO & Founder, CYFIRMA told Hindustan Times, “The massive outage in Microsoft systems caused by CrowdStrike updates was due to a compatibility issue between CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor and a Windows update. When the CrowdStrike sensor, a critical endpoint protection agent, was updated, it conflicted with changes introduced in the latest Windows update. Such incidents underscore the importance of rigorous compatibility testing between security solutions and operating system updates to prevent widespread disruptions. There are measures that can be put in place to avoid such disruptions.”

Microsoft outage Live updates: Kenya Airways said it was experiencing disruptions to its booking system due to the global IT outage. It said, “We are currently experiencing a system outage that has affected our booking systems as a result of a global system outage. Customers are advised to expect slower than usual service.”

Microsoft outage Live updates: Indigo cancelled three late-evening flights from Thiruvananthapuram on account of the problems caused by the Microsoft global outage. The 8.55 pm flight to Bengaluru, 10.10pm flight to Hyderabad and the 10.45pm flight to Chennai were cancelled.

Microsoft outage Live updates: Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issues advisory said, “It has been reported that Windows hosts related to Crowd strike agent Falcon Sensor, are facing outages and getting crashed due to recent update received in the product. The concerned Windows hosts are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), related to Falcon Sensor. The issues occurred in the latest update of CrowdStrike and the changes have been reverted by the CrowdStrike Team.”

Microsoft outage Live updates: Hong Kong’s airport said that some airlines had been affected by an IT outage, as widespread technical problems were reported by flight operators around the world. Read more

Microsoft outage Live updates: Cyber-security experts warned that even though there is now a software fix, it’s going to take a huge amount of work to get computers back up and running.

Researcher Kevin Beaumont said, “As systems no longer start, impacted systems will need to be started in ‘Safe Mode’, to remove the faulty update. This is incredibly time-consuming and will take organisations days to do at scale. Essentially we have one of the world’s highest impact IT incidents caused by a cyber-security vendor.”

Microsoft outage Live updates: Owing to the global IT outage, 1,390 have been cancelled, as per aviation analytics company Cirium. In US, 512 flights have been cancelled so far, Germany 92, India 56, Italy 45 and in Canada 21, data showed.

Microsoft outage Live updates: Crowdstrike CEO confirms issue caused by antivirus software interaction, not a cyberattack. Mac and Linux not affected, fix deployed. Read more

Microsoft outage Live updates: 90% flights disrupted at Terminal 1 of Bengaluru airport due to Microsoft outage.

Microsoft outage Live updates: Earlier, metro service in Washington DC, told users to expect delays because of the IT problems. It has now said that “all Metrorail stations opened on time and service is running as scheduled”.