I Survived Crowdstrike Outage 2024 Outage. The outage, which has brought the blue screen of death upon legions of windows machines across the globe, is linked to just one software company: Crowdstrike president and ceo, george kurtz, posted on x friday morning confirming the issue was caused by a single content update for windows.

Crowdstrike, a security vendor offering the falcon platform used by microsoft and other companies to minimize cybersecurity risks, released a. A rogue software update by the us cybersecurity company crowdstrike crippled up to eight and half million computers using microsoft systems around the world.