Digital Security The widespread IT outages triggered by a faulty CrowdStrike update have put software updates in the spotlight. Here’s why you shouldn’t dread them. 19 Jul 2024 • , 3 min. read In the realm of computing, few things are as unsettling as encountering a blue screen of death (BSOD) on your Windows system.…
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Jul 20, 2024NewsroomCybercrime / Data Breach Law enforcement officials in the U.K. have arrested a 17-year-old boy from Walsall who is suspected to be a member of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime syndicate. The arrest was made “in connection with a global cyber online crime group which has been targeting large organizations with ransomware and…
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Dismissed charges Although the judge ordered that the securities fraud charge proceed to trial, he dismissed all of the other charges. Those charges included the SEC’s argument that security misrepresentations amount to accounting errors, and that statements made in news releases and blogs also fooled investors. Engelmayer also dismissed public statements by Brown, including those…
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With a potentially lengthy recovery ahead, the defective CrowdStrike update that led to an unprecedented worldwide Microsoft outage will ultimately raise questions about the automatic update process for cybersecurity tools. It’s actually no exaggeration to say, as John Hammond did Friday, that the IT outage caused by a defective CrowdStrike software update has been “earth-shattering.”…
Read MoreFriday Squid Blogging: Peru Trying to Protect its Squid Fisheries Peru is trying to protect its territorial waters from Chinese squid-fishing boats. Blog moderation policy. Tags: squid Posted on July 19, 2024 at 5:03 PM • Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. Source link lol
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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.…
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