Tag: Cybersecurity

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…

‘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…

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…

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…

Major airlines reported progress on recovery from the outage Saturday. Microsoft disclosed Saturday that 8.5 million Windows devices were impacted by CrowdStrike’s disastrous update, while major airlines reported progress on recovery from the massive outage. The CrowdStrike Falcon update led to the “blue screen of death” for Windows systems worldwide on Friday and hobbled much…

It remains unclear exactly why the hugely disruptive error occurred, the company says—especially given that such updates are very common. CrowdStrike said the unprecedented Microsoft outage felt worldwide stemmed from a programming error that was triggered as part of a common update process—prompting further questions about how the massively disruptive error could have occurred. The…

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.”…

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…