Tag: Cybersecurity

The outage impacted Microsoft 365, the Azure portal and multiple Azure services on Tuesday. Microsoft disclosed that the major outage that impacted services including Microsoft 365 and Azure on Tuesday was initially caused by a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, though the outage was worsened due to an “error” by the Microsoft response effort. The outage…

The U.S. cybersecurity agency’s warning comes after a Microsoft report saying multiple ransomware operators have utilized the bug in attacks. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning about risks from a VMware ESXi vulnerability after Microsoft reported that multiple ransomware operators have utilized the bug in attacks. In a post Tuesday, CISA…

CrowdStrike’s shares dropped Tuesday following a report that Delta has hired an attorney over the outage that led to thousands of flight cancellations. CrowdStrike’s shares dropped Tuesday following a report that Delta has hired an attorney over the massive outage that led to thousands of flight cancellations. Meanwhile, a Wall Street firm reportedly told investors…

In an interview with CRN, SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten says the massive outage was the result of a ‘very risky architecture.’ The massive Microsoft Windows outage set off by a CrowdStrike update on July 19 was the consequence of “bad design decisions” by the security vendor that allowed a defective file to hobble servers and…

In a statement responding to CRN’s interview with SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten, CrowdStrike says that its July 19 update did not bypass Microsoft’s ‘clear kernel review process.’ CrowdStrike said the July 19 update that led to a global IT outage did not bypass Microsoft’s “clear kernel review process” for Windows. In a statement, CrowdStrike responded…