Tag: Cybersecurity
Many questions remain about the ultimate cause of the outage and the impact it will have on CrowdStrike going forward. While progress continued to be made on the recovery from the CrowdStrike-caused global IT outage Tuesday, many questions remain. The cybersecurity giant’s defective configuration update led to the “blue screen of death” for Microsoft Windows…
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‘It reinforced that [Desktop-as-a-Service] technology has its benefits to quickly recover from situations like this,’ says Nerdio co-founder and CEO Vadim Vladimirskiy. The recent faulty CrowdStrike update that downed about 8.5 million Microsoft Windows machines helped show the power of virtualization when it comes to recovering from cybersecurity incidents and outages, said Nerdio co-founder and…
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The company has a rare opportunity ahead: To become the next cybersecurity giant. Yes, $23 billion is a lot of money to turn down. But in spurning Google’s acquisition offer, I believe Wiz is positioning itself for something even bigger—and even rarer to achieve—in the cybersecurity industry. Given the stunning growth of the cloud security…
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The discussions have fallen apart as Wiz seeks to remain independent, Wiz’s CEO reportedly told employees Monday. Google’s bid to acquire Wiz has disintegrated as the cloud security vendor seeks to remain independent, Wiz’s CEO reportedly told employees Monday. Last week, multiple media reports pointed to advanced talks around Google parent Alphabet acquiring Wiz for…
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As one partner tells CRN, the CrowdStrike update that led to a global IT outage was meant to protect against new hacker techniques—and wasn’t merely a new software feature update. While it may make little difference to the countless people impacted by the massive CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage that began Friday, it wasn’t merely a new software…
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‘We let down the very people we committed to protect,’ wrote Shawn Henry, longtime CSO at CrowdStrike, in a LinkedIn post. The massive global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update has been a “gut punch” for the company, though it “pales in comparison” to what customers and partners have been going through, CrowdStrike…
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‘Over the weekend, we saw about 50 new email domains that were purchased by cybercriminals to impersonate CrowdStrike,’ HacWare CEO Tiffany Ricks tells CRN. Phishing emails have been circulating around inboxes after news of the CrowdStrike IT outage with scammers impersonating support teams to remediate the issue, and HacWare CEO Tiffany Ricks said the messages…
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Flight cancellations continued through the weekend while the two vendors sought to help expedite the recovery process for the millions of affected Windows devices. Following the massive CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage early Friday morning, flight cancellations continued through the weekend while the two vendors sought to help expedite the recovery process for the millions of affected Windows…
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A pair of downgrades from Wall Street analysts and ongoing disruptions to flights weighed on the cybersecurity vendor’s stock price Monday. Following the CrowdStrike-caused Microsoft Windows outage Friday, a pair of downgrades from Wall Street analysts and ongoing flight disruptions sank the cybersecurity vendor’s stock price lower Monday. As of this writing Monday morning, CrowdStrike’s…
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‘As a follow-up to the CrowdStrike Falcon agent issue impacting Windows clients and servers, Microsoft has released an updated recovery tool with two repair options to help IT admins expedite the repair process,’ Microsoft says. Following the faulty CrowdStrike update that caused chaos for millions of Microsoft customers and businesses, the software giant has now…
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