Arnold, CA…While in our little rural corner of the world life seems to roll on unaffected, the digital world as a whole is having real issues with the huge Crowdstrike & Microsoft outage has disrupted travel, banking & even the US Postal service. Root cause seemed to be when Crowdstrike pushed out a Windows update which started a chain of events that took many of the world’s systems down. From the CEO of Crowdstrike…

“Today was not a security or cyber incident. Our customers remain fully protected.

We understand the gravity of the situation and are deeply sorry for the inconvenience and disruption. We are working with all impacted customers to ensure that systems are back up and they can deliver the services their customers are counting on.

As noted earlier, the issue has been identified and a fix has been deployed. There was an issue with a Falcon content update for Windows Hosts.

For the latest information that we will continuously update, please refer to the CrowdStrike website (https://crowdstrike.com/blog/statement-on-windows-sensor-update/), my posts on LinkedIn, and my posts on X. I will continue to provide updates to our community and the industry as they become available.”