Hospitals Around the World are in a state of crisis because of the IT crash

The global ‘blue screen’ of death was caused by an update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, The Verge reported. According to the report, the update caused a bug in CrowdStrike’s antivirus software which caused many Windows machines to crash and cause them to boot into a boot loop. CrowdStrike said it has deployed a fix for the bug but this could take days to resolve.