Cybersecurity Giant CrowdStrike Outage Affects Businesses Worldwide

Faulty Code Update Brings Down Thousands of Systems

Outage Impacts Airports, Banks, and Other Businesses

The global computer outage that affected airports, banks, and other businesses on Friday appears to stem at least partly from a software update pushed by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

CrowdStrike, which is used by many of the Fortune 500 companies, released a statement on Friday evening saying that the outage was caused by a defect in a content update for its Falcon endpoint protection software.