A massive Microsoft Windows failure that crashed computers around the world early Friday morning has caused flight cancellations and delays and impeded court and government functions throughout the Bay Area.
Sometime after 2 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday, a worldwide cyber security company called CrowdStrike initiated a software update to a product called Falcon, which caused countless client computers and servers running Windows to crash. 'It's called the 'blue screen of death,'' said Levent Ertaul, a cybersecurity expert and chair of the Computer Science Department at California State University, East Bay.
' Several city and county governments were also scrambling to implement system repairs Friday, including Contra Costa County, which reported problems with its business operations, remote access and library services. 'We are working to minimize those impacts as CrowdStrike resolves their broader ongoing security issues,' county officials said on social media Friday morning.
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