{"id":285477,"date":"2024-07-19T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T08:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=336313"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:10:02","slug":"a-global-windows-failure-is-affecting-half-of-the-world-banks-airports-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-global-windows-failure-is-affecting-half-of-the-world-banks-airports-media\/","title":{"rendered":"A global Windows failure is affecting half of the world: banks, airports, media&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A widespread disruption related to Windows workstations has affected major companies, such as Sky News UK, Melbourne Airport, or the entire Aena platform, responsible for airports in Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Microsoft 365\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/e7c83350-96d9-11e6-af79-00163ed833e7\/2296076294\/microsoft-365-icon.png\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Microsoft 365<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-365.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-365.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Companies such as <strong>banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, broadcasters and television stations, and supermarkets have been left without service<\/strong> after blue screen errors appeared on Windows workstations worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands of Windows computers are experiencing a blue screen of death (BSOD) issue upon startup, which<strong> affects banks, airlines, television networks, supermarkets, and many other companies worldwide.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: A global internet outage is affecting airlines, banks, media and offices from the U.S. to Australia. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zFWcbdKWF1\">https:\/\/t.co\/zFWcbdKWF1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/1814204178043940973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A failure that comes from the CrowdStrike cybersecurity tool<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A faulty update from the cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike is disconnecting affected computers and servers, forcing them into a recovery boot loop so that the machines cannot start properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CrowdStrike is widely used by many companies worldwide<\/strong> to manage the security of Windows computers and servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Banks, airlines, and Australian television networks were the first to sound the alarm when thousands of machines started to malfunction. <strong>Now the issues are spreading as European-based companies begin their workday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SkyNews<\/a> have not been able to broadcast live TV this morning, currently telling viewers that we apologise for the interruption.  Much of our news report is still available online, and we are working hard to restore all services.<\/p>&mdash; David Rhodes (@davidgrayrhodes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidgrayrhodes\/status\/1814192421921534187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The British chain Sky News is currently unable to broadcast its morning news bulletins<\/strong>, and displays a message apologizing for &#8220;the disruption to this broadcast&#8221;. Ryanair, one of Europe&#8217;s largest airlines, also says it is experiencing a computer problem with &#8220;third parties&#8221; that is affecting flight departures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States says that all flights of Delta, United, and American Airlines are suspended due to a &#8220;communication problem&#8221;. <strong>And Aena, responsible for all flights in Spain, is announcing delays due to this failure.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Debido a una incidencia en el sistema inform\u00e1tico, se est\u00e1n produciendo alteraciones en los sistemas de Aena y en los aeropuertos de la red en Espa\u00f1a, lo que podr\u00eda provocar retrasos. Estamos trabajando para solucionarlo lo antes posible. <br><br>Mientras, las operaciones se est\u00e1n\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bSDL5afBG0\">pic.twitter.com\/bSDL5afBG0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Aena (@aena) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aena\/status\/1814182637054968029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/crowdstrike\/comments\/1e6vmkf\/bsod_error_in_latest_crowdstrike_update\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=mweb3x&amp;utm_name=mweb3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Reddit thread\">Reddit thread<\/a>, hundreds of IT administrators are reporting widespread issues and the steps to fix them involve booting the affected Windows machines in safe mode and navigating to the CrowdStrike directory and deleting a system file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This will be problematic on some cloud-based servers, or even for Windows laptops<\/strong> that are deployed and used remotely. Microsoft is facing a very busy Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A widespread disruption related to Windows workstations has affected major companies, such as Sky News UK, Melbourne Airport, or the entire Aena platform, responsible for airports in Spain. Companies such as banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, broadcasters and television stations, and supermarkets have been left without service after blue screen errors appeared on Windows workstations worldwide. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-global-windows-failure-is-affecting-half-of-the-world-banks-airports-media\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A global Windows failure is affecting half of the world: banks, airports, media&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9265,"featured_media":285478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[5605],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-285477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ciberseguridad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312202,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285477\/revisions\/312202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285477"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=285477"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=285477"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=285477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}