Republicans question CrowdStrike outage impact on Arizona election systems
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is questioning local election officials in Arizona about how last week’s CrowdStrike outage affected voting centers in the state. The RNC, the Arizona Republican Party and the Trump campaign’s election integrity division I sent a letter “We are visiting Arizona counties to ask for an explanation of whether CrowdStrike’s global […]
U.S. Officials Investigating Delta Air Lines in Wake of Massive CrowdStrike IT Outage
Government authorities are investigating Delta Airlines following the recent CrowdStrike IT outage which caused massive disruption to the airline industry and other industries around the world. US Department of Transportation investigating Delta after flight cancellations, delays, Spectrum News 1 report on tuesday. In a social media post on Tuesday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said: Said“U.S. […]
Delta cancels whopping 700 flights on Monday in wake of outage
Delta Air Lines continued to struggle to restore operations on Monday, three days after a global cyber outage disrupted flights around the world and stranded thousands of passengers across the country. The Atlanta-based airline canceled 828 flights, about 21% of its total scheduled flights, as of 4:15 p.m. ET on Monday. Flight AwareThis accounted for […]
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 […]
Delta cancels nearly 700 more flights in wake of massive IT outage
Delta Air Lines is struggling to recover from a major technical outage that first froze air traffic across the nation on Friday, cancelling or delaying more than 1,100 flights on Monday. The airline canceled about 690 flights and delayed about 420 on Monday. Tracking service FlightAwareThis comes a day after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized […]
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 […]
Worldwide Tech Outage Grounds Flights, Leaving Travelers Stranded
US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike released a flawed software update for Microsoft Windows-based computers on Friday, causing flight suspensions and major problems at airports around the world. JFK and LaGuardia airports were hit by a massive internet outage Stuck, New York Post report. “Microsoft said the root cause of the global outage had been resolved as […]
Massive computer outage affecting banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo customers – VIBUS News
US banks are currently working hard to recover from a major computer outage that has caused widespread disruption to financial transactions around the world. Large bank customers JPMorgan Chase, Bank of Americaand Wells Fargo We are experiencing large-scale, sustained outages. These issues have been confirmed by network tracking services. Down Detector. Blue screen on all […]
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 […]