 Houston City Council from 1989 to 1994 and then ran for Houston Mayor in 2023. The Congresswoman was 74. It's being called the largest IT outage in history. Thousands of flights have been canceled worldwide and businesses have been struggling to operate. More from CBS's Donya Beckus. CrowdStrike, a Texas-based cybersecurity company, says the problem arose when it deployed a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows.