On Friday, the cybersecurity firm experienced a major disruption following an issue with a software update. CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity vendor that develops software to help companies detect and block hacks. In the case of Friday's outage, machines running Microsoft's Windows operating system crashed due to a fault in the way a software update issued by CrowdStrike interacted with Windows. We approximate impact started around 19:00 UTC on the 18th of July," Microsoft said in an update at 5:40 a.m. Unless Microsoft and CrowdStrike (if they are involved) pull something miraculous out of the bag, this could be painful to recover from."

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Persons: George Kurtz, Patrick T, CrowdStrike, —, Kurtz, Andy Grayland, They'd Organizations: CrowdStrike Inc, Montgomery Summit, Fallon, Bloomberg, Getty, TV, CNBC, Fortune, Windows, Machines, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Linux Locations: Santa Monica , California, Texas, U.S