Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik I recently got stuck in Amsterdam for two days thanks to the Crowdstrike outage, which gave me a weekend’s worth of time to explore the glorious city. Amsterdam contains 165 canals that total over 60 miles in length, and on the streets that border them you’ll find some of the best carspotting … Read more
Home Technology Microsoft Outage: CrowdStrike Shuts Down Cyberattack Rumors; Says Issue Isolated, Fix Deployed Addressing the Microsoft outage, CrowdStrike President and CEO, George Kurtz, said the firm was working with customers and assured that it was not a cyberattack. CrowdStrike told customers it was “aware of reports of crashes” of its software on the Microsoft … Read more
The “blue screen of death” that appeared last week on an estimated 8.5 million PCs and servers around the world running Microsoft software wasn’t a hack or an attack. No, “the largest digital outage in history,” one that affected industries ranging from aviation to coffee shops, was the product of good cyber hygiene — an … Read more
Photo: Joe Raedle / Staff (Getty Images) Cybersecurity software Crowdstrike experienced a global outage on Friday, causing problems in a variety of industries, from financial to air travel and even taking down emergency services in some areas. It was an absolute disaster that, among other things, left thousands of travelers stranded, and it’s still causing … Read more
Delta Air Lines struggled for a fourth straight day to recover from a worldwide technology outage caused by a faulty software update, stranding tens of thousands of passengers and drawing unwanted attention from the federal government. The airline’s chief executive said it would take “another couple days” before “the worst is clearly behind us.” Delta’s … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO: Security experts said CrowdStrike’s routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients’ computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks before it was deployed. The latest version of its Falcon Sensor software was meant make CrowdStrike clients’ systems more secure against hacking by updating … Read more
A widespread technology outage on Friday, seemingly linked to issues at global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and Microsoft, disrupted operations at airports, airlines, banks and even hospitals, including several in Canada. A software update by CrowdStrike appeared to have triggered systems problems across the world, and many hospitals said they were impacted by the outage. Some … Read more
Dozens of Canadian flights and several hospitals across the country were disrupted on Friday amid a global technology outage that has grounded planes and impacted banks as well as other businesses across the world. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said on Friday that the problem occurred after a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows and the issue … Read more