Nearly 8.5 million Windows devices affected the massive outage, caused by a software update from US cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, it was announced today Microsoft.
“Our estimate to date is that the CrowdStrike software update has affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows devices,” the company said in a blog post today.
“The most effective approaches”
CrowdStrike helped develop a scalable solution that will help Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure speed up a patch, Microsoft said, adding that the tech giant is working with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform to find “more effective approaches.”
Yesterday’s collapse of information systems around the world affected the functioning of airports, airlines, banks, media and dozens of other companies around the world.
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