text:  It was kind of surreal. And, you know, of course, rumors started flying. Is this a cyber attack? What's going on? What was going on was part of a worldwide glitch affecting everything from airports to local government to banking. All these systems were using CrowdStrike, software designed to protect data and block cybersecurity threats. So this was a software update for CrowdStrike that didn't play well with Microsoft operating systems.