The Problem With Windows Is The Biggest In History Yesterday, Friday, various online services of airlines, railways, stock exchanges, television broadcasting, telecoms, banks, etc. were stopped worldwide. While installing the Crowdstrike update, users faced the issue of a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error.
Such problems were especially seen in computers running on licensed Windows 10 and 11 systems. Banking services and telecom problems in Nepal were also affected by this.
Some supermarkets face card payment problems and have to accept only cash payments. This problem has affected many large and small businesses. Although large companies can solve problems quickly, small and medium-sized businesses face difficulties in solving problems due to a lack of staff, as the BBC has mentioned.
Analysts said that the problem arose when the Crowdstrike company released the new Falcon update worldwide without any testing. Falcon is one of the main products of the company. It provides services such as computer attack information, hyper-accurate detection, and automated protection. That is, it is an antivirus, which protects the computer from possible cyber attacks.
After this incident, different people have given different reactions regarding technology. It is yet to be known how much economic burden it has caused around the world. But yesterday, the shares of Crowdstrike fell by 11 percent.
Senior cyber security researcher Troy Hunt called this incident the biggest IT outage in history. Many people believe this statement of his to be true to a large extent. Because this problem affected not only a country or a specific region but the whole world and many regions.
FTC Chairman Leena Khan has argued that the problem of outages is due to the focus on market power. He says that this weakness has come from placing too much trust in some systems.
Similarly, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said that due to the update of CrowdStry, the IT system has been affected worldwide. It also said it is aware of the issue and is working with CrowdStrike to safely bring its customers’ systems back online.
Now the systems of most of the affected companies have started running.
