 The founder of CrowdStrike is offering an apology for the outage that disrupted travel and other systems worldwide Friday. Here's Fox's Grinnell Scott. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz again said this time in a statement to partners and customers that the outage was not a cyber attack, but caused by a defect in a software update to systems that use Windows. He said all of CrowdStrike has been mobilized to help those who need to get those systems up and running.