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CrowdStrike accepts award for ‘most epic fail’ after global IT outage

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Just a few weeks after its software update triggered a global IT meltdown, CrowdStrike isn’t shying away from the spotlight. In fact, the company’s president Michael Sentonas even took the stage at the Pwnie Awards to accept the award for Most Epic Fail. The awards took place at Def Con, right after the Black Hat conference where CrowdStrike had […]

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After global IT meltdown, CrowdStrike courts hackers with action figures and gratitude

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On Wednesday morning, thousands of cybersecurity professionals swarmed the halls of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, the epicenter of the annual Black Hat cybersecurity conference, where dozens of companies were advertising their wares.  In the first row and with one of the biggest booths stood CrowdStrike, a company that has recently become

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US cyber agency CISA says malicious hackers are ‘taking advantage’ of CrowdStrike outage

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As much of the world slowly gets back online after an outage caused by cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike led to global travel and business gridlock, malicious actors are also trying to exploit the situation for their own gain. U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA said in a statement Friday that though the CrowdStrike outage was not linked to

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What we know about CrowdStrike’s update fail that’s causing global outages and travel chaos

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A faulty software update issued by security giant CrowdStrike has resulted in a massive overnight outage that’s affected Windows computers around the world, disrupting businesses, airports, train stations, banks, broadcasters and the healthcare sector. CrowdStrike said the outage was not caused by a cyberattack, but was the result of a “defect” in a software update for

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