Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 10:02am on 19 Jul 2024,Friday India
Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that the government is in contact with Microsoft regarding the global outage affecting multiple sectors. The reason for the outage has been identified, and updates have been released to resolve the issue. The National Informatics Centre's network, NICNET, is unaffected. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team issued a technical advisory, stating that Windows hosts related to Crowd Strike's Falcon Sensor are experiencing outages and crashes due to a recent update, resulting in a "Blue Screen of Death". The government is working to address the issue.
