What is the "blue screen of death," and how can you fix it?
The Microsoft outage on Friday caused many PCs to display an error message nicknamed the "blue screen of death."
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What is CrowdStrike, the company behind the global Microsoft outages?
The outages Friday were connected to "a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts," CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said in a statement.
FedEx, UPS warn deliveries may be delayed due to Microsoft outage
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Worldwide tech outages: What we know
A technical problem that global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says it has identified in its software and is working to resolve is causing massive outages around the globe for businesses, airlines and people using Microsoft. CrowdStrike provides antivirus software to Microsoft for its Windows devices. CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave has more on how airlines are responding to the outage and Jamil Jaffer, founder and executive director of the National Security Institute at George Mason University's Scalia Law School, joined CBS News to discuss how an incident like this happens.
Worldwide tech outages in multiple industries
Massive tech outages Friday around the world are impacting airlines, businesses, offices and companies that are using Microsoft software. Apple and Linux systems are working normally. The issues are due to a technical problem that global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said it had identified in its software and was working to resolve. CrowdStrike provides antivirus software to Microsoft for its Windows devices. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has more.
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What is the "blue screen of death," and how can you fix it?
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What is CrowdStrike, the company behind the global Microsoft outages?
The outages Friday were connected to "a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts," CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said in a statement.
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What is the "blue screen of death," and how can you fix it?
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What is CrowdStrike, the company behind the global Microsoft outages?
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