 Since his arrest in March of last year, the Wall Street Journal has consistently called the charges against him baseless. Fox's Ryan Schmelz in Washington. Flights grounded in businesses and governments were a standstill for hours today after a widespread tech outage blamed on the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. The company's CEO says it was not caused by a cyber attack, but by a defect in a software update to systems that use Microsoft's Windows.