CrowdStrike sends $10 Uber Eats gift cards as apology for global IT meltdown: report
CrowdStrike will reportedly offer customers $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology for the disastrous software update that caused a global tech meltdown last week. On Friday, a CrowdStrike glitch caused millions of computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system to experience a “blue screen of death,” rendering them unable to boot. CrowdStrike is […]
CrowdStrike explains bug that caused global tech meltdown
CrowdStrike’s flawed software update that caused a global computer meltdown last week was sent because a bug caused the company’s quality control system to miss the flawed data, the cybersecurity giant acknowledged on Wednesday. Last Friday, airlines, hospitals, banks and a variety of other businesses were crippled as a result of a disastrous software update […]
Delta meltdown probed by feds as airline struggles days after global outage
The Transportation Department said Tuesday it was opening an investigation into Delta Air Lines after the company canceled more than 5,000 flights since Friday as it struggles to recover from a global cyber outage that has disrupted airlines around the world. While other airlines have been able to resume normal operations, Delta continues to cancel […]
‘Absolutely Not’: Kamala Harris Isn’t Ready For Prime Time On The Global Stage, Experts Say
If she wins the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris would enter an increasingly divided world stage as a “novice” foreign policy tactician — but experts warn that would pose serious risks to US national security. Harris has garnered key endorsements and roughly $80 million in new campaign funds after President Joe Biden announced […]
House Republicans call on CrowdStrike CEO to testify about global outage
House Republicans are calling on CrowdStrike’s CEO to testify at a congressional hearing on the global technology outage that affected flights and businesses around the world on Friday. Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) and Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) I sent a letter On Monday, it called on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to appear before the committee […]
CrowdStrike shares continue to tumble after causing global outage
CrowdStrike shares plunged 13% on Monday, extending losses as Wall Street analysts downgraded the company’s shares due to concerns about the economic impact of last week’s global cyber outage. A faulty update to CrowdStrike’s security software crashed computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system and disrupted internet services around the world, affecting a wide range of […]
CrowdStrike’s Global Computer Outage Reignites Concerns over Cybersecurity Industry Concentration, ‘RussiaGate’ Ties
The recent global IT outage caused by a faulty update by CrowdStrike has focused new attention on the cybersecurity company’s market power and its controversial role in the “Russiagate” hacking investigation of the 2016 Democratic National Committee (DNC). of Financial Times Reports CrowdStrike, a leading cybersecurity company that protects 29,000 customers worldwide, has revealed that […]
Elon Musk takes several shots at CrowdStrike after global outage — including taking aim at company’s DEI policy
Billionaire X owner Elon Musk has repeatedly criticized CrowdStrike after a botched software update caused what may be the biggest IT outage in history, including taking aim at the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies. Services were mostly restored to hospitals, banks and other businesses that use Microsoft products after fixes for the glitch caused […]
The Observer view on the global IT crash: lessons must be learned from CrowdStrike fiasco | Observer editorial
oh“Epic IT crashThe “terror attack” that temporarily brought the West to a halt was the result of human error, not a Russian cyber attack. SolarWinds Hacked A similar incident occurred in 2020. Last week’s outage was caused by an update that CrowdStrike, a major U.S. cybersecurity firm, pushed out to its corporate customers early Friday […]
‘Computer says no’: what the papers say after IT outage causes global chaos | Microsoft IT outage
Saturday’s headlines were dominated by the impact of an IT outage that grounded flights around the world, knocked television stations off the air and wreaked havoc on health services, banking and retail. The outage was caused by a botched software upgrade by US company CrowdStrike, which affected Microsoft’s Windows operating system and caused employees’ computers […]