Businesses, governments and airlines across the world experienced hours-long disruptions on Friday after a widespread technology outage caused by a faulty software update.
CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm that provides software to thousands of companies around the world, says the problem occurred when it deployed a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows.
The outage was not caused by a security incident or cyberattack, CrowdStrike said.
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The global outage had local impacts, as several major airlines canceled flights out of LAX on Friday and shipments at local ports were briefly interrupted.
Delays and cancellations continued into Saturday; according to flight tracking software FlightAware, 279 flights were delayed and a further 90 were canceled at LAX as of 1 p.m.
Consumer technology expert and former Microsoft executive Marbue Brown joined the KTLA 5 Weekend Morning Newson Saturday to discuss the global IT crash, including how it happened, what the impacts are and whether something …