CrowdStrike executive apologizes to Congress for July global tech outage
3 months, 2 weeks ago

CrowdStrike executive apologizes to Congress for July global tech outage

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An executive at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike apologized in testimony to Congress for sparking a global technology outage over the summer. “We let our customers down,” said Adam Meyers, who leads CrowdStrike's threat intelligence division, in a hearing before a U.S. House cybersecurity subcommittee Tuesday. Austin, Texas-based CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off a global tech outage in July that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers. CrowdStrike's faulty software update crashed about 8.5 million computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system.

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How the CrowdStrike outage made IT supply chains the new big issue in tech
1 week, 4 days ago

How the CrowdStrike outage made IT supply chains the new big issue in tech

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The CrowdStrike outage – which caused massive disruption in the NHS, transport, banking …

CrowdStrike boss apologises over global IT outage
3 months, 2 weeks ago

CrowdStrike boss apologises over global IT outage

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has again apologised for the global IT outage sparked by …

CrowdStrike prepares to face questions in US congress over global IT outage
3 months, 2 weeks ago

CrowdStrike prepares to face questions in US congress over global IT outage

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm at …

Microsoft CrowdStrike IT outage: cybersecurity firm exec to testify before Congress on IT outage
4 months, 1 week ago

Microsoft CrowdStrike IT outage: cybersecurity firm exec to testify before Congress on IT outage

The Hindu  

A senior executive at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike will testify before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on September 24 on the company's faulty software update that caused a global IT outage. Adam Meyers, senior vice president for counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, will testify before the House Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection subcommittee, the panel said Friday. "Considering the …

Windows outage: CrowdStrike blames bug in testing software; CEO says 'deeply sorry'
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Windows outage: CrowdStrike blames bug in testing software; CEO says 'deeply sorry'

Hindustan Times  

CrowdStrike's faulty update for millions of Windows users brought the world to a standstill last Friday—after their computers got stuck in boot loops and displayed the ‘Blue Screen of Death’ error. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz claimed that over 97% percent of Windows computers affected by the recent outage are now back to being functional. CrowdStrike says that the content update …

CrowdStrike reveals how huge Microsoft outage that led to global chaos actually happened
5 months, 2 weeks ago

CrowdStrike reveals how huge Microsoft outage that led to global chaos actually happened

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Due to a bug in the Content Validator, one of the two Template Instances passed validation despite …

How IT Departments Scrambled to Address the CrowdStrike Chaos
5 months, 2 weeks ago

How IT Departments Scrambled to Address the CrowdStrike Chaos

Wired  

Just before 1:00 am local time on Friday, a system administrator for a West Coast company that handles funeral and mortuary services woke up suddenly and noticed his computer screen was aglow. The security firm accidentally caused chaos around the world on Friday and into the weekend after distributing faulty software to its Falcon monitoring platform, hobbling airlines, hospitals, and …

CrowdStrike blames bug for letting bad data slip through, leading to global tech outage
5 months, 2 weeks ago

CrowdStrike blames bug for letting bad data slip through, leading to global tech outage

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — CrowdStrike is blaming a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off last week’s global tech outage that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers. The company on Wednesday posted details online from its “preliminary post incident review …

CrowdStrike outage: We finally know what caused it - and how much it cost
5 months, 2 weeks ago

CrowdStrike outage: We finally know what caused it - and how much it cost

CNN  

CNN — Insurers have begun calculating the financial damage caused by last week’s devastating CrowdStrike software glitch that crashed computers, canceled flights and disrupted hospitals all around the globe — and the picture isn’t pretty. “This incident highlights a growing risk of single points of failure,” Fitch said in a blog post, warning that such single points of failure “are …

CrowdStrike CEO warns of hacking threat as outage persists
5 months, 2 weeks ago

CrowdStrike CEO warns of hacking threat as outage persists

Live Mint  

The CrowdStrike glitch that caused outages for millions of users of Microsoft Windows devices last week continued to roil industries and snarl global air travel. Warning customers that bad actors were trying to exploit the event, the company said it had identified a malicious file being sent around by hackers posing as a ‘quick fix’ to the problem. A file …

Column: The CrowdStrike meltdown reminds us that the hacking problem doesn’t come only from outside
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: The CrowdStrike meltdown reminds us that the hacking problem doesn’t come only from outside

LA Times  

Just last Wednesday, I posted a column reporting how our richest corporations, through sheer miserliness and profit-seeking, left millions of Americans vulnerable to technological attacks on their privacy and welfare. A report issued in March by the government’s Cyber Safety Review Board about a major hacking intrusion into Microsoft’s cloud system in March 2023 asserted that the company’s “ubiquitous and …

Opinion: The CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of depending on Big Tech overlords
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: The CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of depending on Big Tech overlords

LA Times  

Screens display a blue error message at a departure floor of LaGuardia Airport in New York on Friday after a faulty CrowdStrike update caused a major outage for computers running Microsoft Windows. The shutdown brought Americans’ collective cyber vulnerability into sharp focus: Our reliance on trillion-dollar tech overlords may imperil national security. In 2023, federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency …

CrowdStrike CEO called to testify to Congress over cybersecurity’s firm role in global tech outage
5 months, 2 weeks ago

CrowdStrike CEO called to testify to Congress over cybersecurity’s firm role in global tech outage

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — U.S. House leaders are calling on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify to Congress about the cybersecurity company’s role in sparking the widespread tech outage that grounded flights, knocked banks and hospital systems offline and affected services around the world. “While we appreciate CrowdStrike’s response and coordination with stakeholders, we cannot ignore the magnitude of this incident, which …

Don't fall for quick fixes: How Microsoft's global IT outage gave rise to scams – Firstpost
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Don't fall for quick fixes: How Microsoft's global IT outage gave rise to scams – Firstpost

Firstpost  

Cybersecurity experts and agencies worldwide are cautioning people about a surge in opportunistic hacking attempts related to the recent IT outage. While there is no evidence that the outage was caused by malicious activity, some bad actors are attempting to exploit the situation United Airlines employees wait by a departures monitor displaying a blue error screen, also known as the …

Patching the problem relating to accountability
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Patching the problem relating to accountability

China Daily  

A view shows a Microsoft logo at Microsoft offices in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris, France, March 25, 2024. "CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts," the company said in a statement. Microsoft seems to be ready to pretend it is simply a victim rather than an accountable party, saying …

What is Crowdstrike? The $80bn company linked to largest IT outage in history
5 months, 2 weeks ago

What is Crowdstrike? The $80bn company linked to largest IT outage in history

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But as with many of its competitors, it is known primarily to IT professionals and investors – …

It could take up to two weeks to resolve 'teething issues' following CrowdStrike outage, Clare O'Neil says
5 months, 2 weeks ago

It could take up to two weeks to resolve 'teething issues' following CrowdStrike outage, Clare O'Neil says

ABC  

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil says it may take one to two weeks to get all affected sectors back online following Friday's major IT outage, caused by a software update by global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. However, Oxford University management professor Ciaran Martin, a former chief executive of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, said many governments would be powerless to …

How a faulty CrowdStrike update crashed computers around the world
5 months, 2 weeks ago

How a faulty CrowdStrike update crashed computers around the world

Associated Press  

Airlines, banks, hospitals and other risk-averse organizations around the world chose cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to protect their computer systems from hackers and data breaches. “What really causes this mess is that we rely on very few companies, and everybody uses the same folks, so everyone goes down at the same time.” The trouble with the update issued by CrowdStrike and …

Not his first rodeo: CrowdStrike CEO was also involved in another global tech disaster
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Not his first rodeo: CrowdStrike CEO was also involved in another global tech disaster

Hindustan Times  

Friday’s CrowdStrike outage is the second major tech meltdown that founder and CEO George Kurtz has been involved in. On Friday, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike pushed a faulty software update that bricked thousands of Microsoft Windows computers across the world and brought many services to a screeching halt. Air travel, credit card payments, emergency services, stock markets and much more were …

Fast and automated: Global tech outage shows hazards of cloud software updates
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Fast and automated: Global tech outage shows hazards of cloud software updates

Live Mint  

Worldwide tech outages after a defective update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike raise questions about automating software upgrades and whether a handful of dominant suppliers—especially in the cloud—concentrates risk to a dangerous extent. “We’ve created a system that relies on third parties to provide updates you can’t see for yourself," said Gerstell, a former general counsel for the National Security Agency. …

Scammers will pounce on global outage caused by CrowdStrike bug, Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil warns
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Scammers will pounce on global outage caused by CrowdStrike bug, Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil warns

ABC  

Australians have been warned scammers and hackers are trying to capitalise on CrowdStrike-triggered outages to steal personal information including bank details and to gain access to computer systems. "Criminals look to take advantage of incidents like this CrowdStrike outage, creating a sense of urgency that you need to do what they say to protect your computer and your financial information," …

Tech disruptions sparked by software update highlight the fragility of globally connected technology
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Tech disruptions sparked by software update highlight the fragility of globally connected technology

New Indian Express  

Airlines, banks, hospitals and other risk-averse organizations around the world chose cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to protect their computer systems from hackers and data breaches. But all it took was one faulty CrowdStrike software update to cause global disruptions Friday that grounded flights, knocked banks and media outlets offline, and disrupted hospitals, retailers and other services. “This is a function of …

A massive tech outage is causing worldwide disruptions. Here’s what we know
5 months, 2 weeks ago

A massive tech outage is causing worldwide disruptions. Here’s what we know

New Indian Express  

NEW YORK: Much of the world faced online disarray Friday as a widespread technology outage affected companies and services across industries — grounding flights, knocking banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air. The company says the problem occurred when it deployed a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows, noting that the issue behind the outage was …

CrowdStrike boss sees his £3.4bn fortune plummet by £100k and £9bn wiped off his firm as his system sends the world into Microsoft outage crisis
5 months, 2 weeks ago

CrowdStrike boss sees his £3.4bn fortune plummet by £100k and £9bn wiped off his firm as his system sends the world into Microsoft outage crisis

Daily Mail  

The man in charge of the company behind a worldwide IT meltdown today lost nearly £250million of his personal fortune - as his firm admitted responsibility for the outage that halted GP appointments and brought British airports to a standstill. George Kurtz is the CEO of CrowdStrike, which protects some of the world's biggest brands from Internet viruses George Kurtz …

Microsoft outage: ‘Former Crowdstrike employee’ says his 'little update’ caused global disruption, satire or real?
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Microsoft outage: ‘Former Crowdstrike employee’ says his 'little update’ caused global disruption, satire or real?

Hindustan Times  

The global Microsoft outage on Friday caused many employees to hilariously celebrate the “Blue Screen of Death” Day with disrupted IT operations across services. Claiming to be a former employee of the cybersecurity company, he alleged on X that he had “pushed” the “little update” that ultimately resulted in Microsoft operations crashing worldwide. Along with a supposedly edited selfie of …

'Working closely with CrowdStrike to bring systems back online': Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on global outage
5 months, 2 weeks ago

'Working closely with CrowdStrike to bring systems back online': Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on global outage

Firstpost  

A CrowdStrike update triggered a global outage and affected the services of Microsoft Windows due to which users were greeted with the dreaded ‘Blue Screen of Death’ error Hours after a Microsoft outage triggered chaos across the world, Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said that the company is monitoring the situation and working to bring systems back online. We are …

Satya Nadella's first reaction on Microsoft outage: ‘Yesterday, CrowdStrike…’
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Satya Nadella's first reaction on Microsoft outage: ‘Yesterday, CrowdStrike…’

Hindustan Times  

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Friday said an update released by American cybersecurity group CrowdStrike “began impacting IT systems globally.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. “We are aware of this issue and are working closely with CrowdStrike and across the industry to provide customers technical guidance and support to safely bring their systems back online,” Nadella posted on X. What is …

How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers
55 years ago

How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers

Wired  

Only a handful of times in history has a single piece of code managed to instantly wreck computer systems worldwide. Huge Microsoft Outage Caused by CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World A software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike appears to have inadvertently disrupted IT systems globally. By Friday morning, the situation turned into a perfect storm when the security …

What is Crowdstrike, the company behind unprecedented global IT outage
5 months, 2 weeks ago

What is Crowdstrike, the company behind unprecedented global IT outage

Hindustan Times  

A global technology outage caused major disruptions across the world. The outage has been traced back to a cybersecurity company called Crowdstrike which provides anti-cyberattack services to Microsoft, among other companies. The company customers include 298 Fortune 500 companies, eight out of the top 10 financial services firms, seven out of the top 10 manufacturers, six of the top 10 …

Microsoft outage: Australian Michael Sentonas leads Crowdstrike - the company just sparked tech chaos that grounded flights, shut supermarkets and knocked banks offline
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Microsoft outage: Australian Michael Sentonas leads Crowdstrike - the company just sparked tech chaos that grounded flights, shut supermarkets and knocked banks offline

Daily Mail  

An Australian tech guru will likely battle through a storm of chaos in the coming days and weeks as fallout from Friday's global IT outage that crippled banks, supermarkets and airlines from Australia to the United States grows. Michael Sentonas from Melbourne is the global president of Crowdstrike and is one of the few Aussies to have made it big …

Crowdstrike CEO issues apology for 'mother of all outages' - but admits it could be hours before systems are back online
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Crowdstrike CEO issues apology for 'mother of all outages' - but admits it could be hours before systems are back online

Daily Mail  

CrowdStrike has issued an apology after it caused worldwide chaos Friday after it deployed a faulty update to its software that caused a Microsoft outage. The cybersecurity firm's CEO, George Kurtz, spoke publicly about six hours after systems went down, saying the 'blues-screen of death' was caused by a software bug. The cybersecurity firm's CEO, George Kurtz, spoke publicly about …

CrowdStrike says Microsoft outage not due to cyberattack
5 months, 2 weeks ago

CrowdStrike says Microsoft outage not due to cyberattack

Firstpost  

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz posted on social media platform X that the company ‘is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts’ A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks offline and media outlets off air on Friday in a massive disruption that affected companies and services around the world and …

Quicksplained: What is CrowdStrike? How is it linked to Microsoft's global IT outage?
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Quicksplained: What is CrowdStrike? How is it linked to Microsoft's global IT outage?

Firstpost  

You may have seen the “Blue Screen of Death” on your PC or laptop today – forcing it to shut down or restart. The firm in a support note stated, “Our Engineering teams are actively working to resolve this issue and there is no need to open a support ticket.” According to an alert sent by Crowdstrike to its clients …

What is Crowdstrike? The rogue update that brought down the world: How one app is believed to have crippled Microsoft computer networks across the globe - and it could be days before we're all back on
5 months, 2 weeks ago

What is Crowdstrike? The rogue update that brought down the world: How one app is believed to have crippled Microsoft computer networks across the globe - and it could be days before we're all back on

Daily Mail  

The rogue app suspected to be the root cause of bringing down computers across the world is ironically aimed at protecting PCs from hackers. It's believed to have sent servers, desktop PCs, laptops and corporate computer terminals into a death spiral of reboots and the so-called 'blue screen of death', with the error message: 'DRIVER_OVERRAN_STACK_BUFFER' 'CrowdStrike is aware of reports …

Global outage caused by a 'defect' in a 'single content update', CrowdStrike says
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Global outage caused by a 'defect' in a 'single content update', CrowdStrike says

ABC  

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says a global tech outage affecting various businesses was caused by a "defect" in a "single content update" for Windows hosts. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says the global tech outage was caused by a defect in an update. CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows … related to the Falcon sensor," a prerecorded message …

What is CrowdStrike? The $80bn IT giant behind Friday’s global meltdown
5 months, 3 weeks ago

What is CrowdStrike? The $80bn IT giant behind Friday’s global meltdown

The Telegraph  

On social media, IT managers reported dealing with implosions impacting tens of thousands of machines in their businesses. Troy Hunt, a well-respected cyber security guru behind the website HaveIBeenPwned, said: “I don’t think it’s too early to call it: this will be the largest IT outage in history.” While it was largely Microsoft’s Windows 10 systems hit by the IT …

A worldwide IT outage disrupted airlines, banks, hospitals and businesses today
5 months, 3 weeks ago

A worldwide IT outage disrupted airlines, banks, hospitals and businesses today

NPR  

A worldwide IT outage disrupted airlines, banks, hospitals and businesses today One of the biggest IT outages ever caused mayhem around the world today, hobbling airlines, businesses and government agencies. The glitch left employees of airlines, banks, hospitals and emergency services staring at the dreaded blue screen of death today as computers around the world were hobbled by one of …

Here's what we know about CrowdStrike, the company potentially to blame for a global tech outage
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Here's what we know about CrowdStrike, the company potentially to blame for a global tech outage

ABC  

A technical issue related to a US-based cybersecurity firm named CrowdStrike caused computers running Microsoft software across Australia and abroad to glitch on Friday. One of the company's main products is CrowdStrike Falcon, which is described on its website as "providing real-time indicators of attack, hyper-accurate detection and automated protection" from possible cybersecurity threats. CrowdStrike Falcon is used by thousands …

Global IT collapse puts cyber firm CrowdStrike in spotlight
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Global IT collapse puts cyber firm CrowdStrike in spotlight

LA Times  

A glitchy update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike was responsible for disabling potentially millions of corporate and government computers around the world that run on Microsoft Windows. Representatives of Austin, Texas-based CrowdStrike confirmed online reports that a glitchy update was responsible for disabling potentially millions of corporate and government Windows computers around the world and causing the dreaded “blue screen of …

What is CrowdStrike, and how did it cripple so many computers?
5 months, 3 weeks ago

What is CrowdStrike, and how did it cripple so many computers?

LA Times  

Displays show a blue error message at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Friday after a faulty software update caused a major internet outage for computers running Microsoft Windows. The vast sea of “blue screens of death” triggered by CrowdStrike’s error is a testament to the market-leading status of the company’s software, which detects and defends against malicious code planted …

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