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More than 97% of systems affected by the global outage on July 19 were back online, US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said. The outage was caused by a flaw in CrowdStrike’s update testing software.
“I want to announce that over 97% of Windows sensors are back online as of July 25. This progress is due to the tireless efforts of our customers, our partners, and the dedication of our team at CrowdStrike,” said the company’s CEO, George Kurtz, in a message published on the social network LinkedIn.
Last week, a software update from the group on Windows, Microsoft’s operating system, caused computer systems to malfunction around the world, from airports to hospitals.
According to Microsoft, around 8.5 million devices were affected by the outage, with users experiencing “blue screens of death” that made it impossible to reboot.
CrowdStrike’s Falcon software is used by companies around the world to better identify and respond to malware and security vulnerabilities.
In an incident report Wednesday, CrowdStrike said the bug had been released to millions of Windows computers and that it would change how it handles updates in the future.
“Due to a bug in the validation program, one of the two updates was validated even though it contained problematic data,” CrowdStrike explained.
Many large organizations and businesses have been affected, including airlines, hospitals, factories and hotels.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has been summoned by the US Congress to provide explanations
