Month: July 2024
Danny Jenkins—whose company, ThreatLocker, secures the unaffected JetBlue Airways—tells CRN that the seemingly minor nature of the CrowdStrike update was responsible for the sudden widespread impact. The seemingly minor, routine nature of a CrowdStrike Falcon update was a key factor behind the sudden widespread impact from the Microsoft outage caused by the defective update, according…
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MediSecure, an Australian prescription delivery service provider, revealed that roughly 12.9 million people had their personal and health information stolen in an April ransomware attack. The company was forced to shut down its website and phone lines to contain the breach, disclosing it on May 16 as a “cyber security incident.” At the time, the Australian National…
Read MoreNote: CISA will update this Alert with more information as it becomes available. As of 1130am EDT July 19, 2024: CISA is aware of the widespread outage affecting Microsoft Windows hosts due to an issue with a recent CrowdStrike update and is working closely with Crowdstrike and federal, state, local, tribal and territorial (SLTT) partners,…
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Following a CrowdStrike error that caused global IT problems for millions of people, CrowdStrike’s stock is not showing signs of being impacted. Despite a massive defective software incident by CrowdStrike that caused chaos for hospitals, airlines, emergency contact centers and businesses across the world, CrowdStrike’s stock (CRWD) appears to be relatively unscathed by the news…
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Amid fallout from a massive worldwide outage, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz noted that keeping up with hackers requires frequent updates to security tools—and sometimes, something breaks. Maybe it’s too soon to make this point, with travelers still stranded at airports, patients facing health-care disruptions and other widely felt impacts worldwide from CrowdStrike’s defective software update.…
Read MoreBrett Solomon on Digital Rights Brett Solomon is retiring from AccessNow after fifteen years as its Executive Director. He’s written a blog post about what he’s learned and what comes next. Tags: history of security, human rights Posted on July 19, 2024 at 12:02 PM • 0 Comments Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe…
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In terms of recovering from the outage, ‘it could be some time for some systems that just won’t automatically recover,’ Kurtz said in a televised interview. After a CrowdStrike software update caused a massive Microsoft outage with impacts worldwide, “it could be some time” before a full recovery is possible, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said…
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‘We’re helping by offering community support, helping with recovery plans, offering up our staff to augment the MSSPs and helping wherever we can,’ says Marc Menzies, president and CTO of Overview Technology Solutions. ‘We’re saying, “Hey, I know that everyone’s morning is messed up, ours is now messed up too but we’re here to help…
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US software development company Solarwinds has sent out important security fixes that close a number of critical vulnerabilities in its Access Rights Manager software. Six of the vulnerabilities scored 9.6 out of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring Scale (CVSS), which means hackers can attack unprotected systems without having to gain administrator rights to gain…
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