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CrowdStrike, Delta Sue Each Other Over Flight Disruptions Due To July Crash
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said on Monday it sued Delta Air Lines in US District Court in Georgia after a faulty software update prompted a global outage in July.
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Microsoft Plans to Make Windows More Resilient to CrowdStrike-Like Incidents via New Platform
Microsoft Windows will be updated with improvements that are aimed at enhancing its resilience against incidents triggered by security firm, such as the global outage caused by CrowdStrike in July. After its Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit, Microsoft announced its intention to help security vendors adapt their solutions to function outsi...
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Telegram-Linked TON Blockchain Back Online After Hours-Long Outage: Here's What Happened
The TON blockchain stopped processing transactions for a notable time period on Wednesday. Several members of the global blockchain community shared screenshots showing that the blockchain was not creating new blocks. The observers also noted that it took up to eight hours for the TON blockchain to be up and running again.
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X Down? Several Users Report Outage Across the Globe, Including India
X (formerly Twitter) suffered an outage in India and globally during the early hours of Wednesday. The microblogging website, which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk, left users unable to access it or its features on both mobile and web platforms. Over 20,000 user reports were logged on a website which detects and monitors downtime activity.
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Microsoft to Host Cybersecurity Summit After CrowdStrike-Induced IT Outage
Microsoft has announced that it will host a summit next month that will let industry members understand how to improve cybersecurity systems, in the aftermath of a faulty update from security firm CrowdStrike that left millions of Windows computers around the world in an unusable state on July 19. The gathering on September 10 at its headquarters w...
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Microsoft Says Delta Airlines' Lack of Modernised IT Delayed its Recovery After Recent Outage
Microsoft has said that Delta, unlike its competitors, apparently had not modernised its IT infrastructure that caused the airlines to struggle with recovery. Delta, however, said it has invested billions of dollars in IT capital expenditures since 2016.
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CrowdStrike Conducts External Review to Better Understand What Triggered the Global Outage
CrowdStrike, the US-based cybersecurity firm, caused a global outage on July 19 after an update resulted in Windows laptops and desktops crashing and getting stuck in the boot loop. After fixing the issue, the company published a post-incident report highlighting that its artificial intelligence (AI) system dubbed Falcon sensor caused an error. Now...
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Microsoft Blames Delta For Its Struggle To Recover From Global Outage
Microsoft blamed Delta Air Lines on Tuesday for its dayslong struggle to recover from a global cyber outage that led it to cancel more than 6,000 flights.
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Delta CEO Slams Microsoft As "Most Fragile" Platform After Global Outage
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian declared Microsoft "the most fragile" platform after a massive IT outage last month caused chaos across the world.
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This Country Asks Microsoft, CrowdStrike To Pay For Losses Due To IT Outage
Malaysia's digital minister, Gobind Singh Deo, has asked Microsoft and CrowdStrike to consider compensating companies that suffered losses during last week's global tech outage, Reuters reported.
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CrowdStrike Says 'Bug In Content Validator" Caused Global Tech Outage
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company that caused a global computer outage last week, on Wednesday said that the breakdown stemmed from a flaw in its test software.
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Why Home Computers Were Not Affected By Global Microsoft Outage
Microsoft, the US-based tech giant, estimated that 8.5 million computers worldwide were affected due to the outage. The tech glitch happened on July 19 after Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity software company, rolled out its routine update.
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This Country Was Left Untouched By Biggest-Ever IT Outage
Microsoft's global outage created havoc. From airline to broadcasting, the blue screen error, in a way, brought the daily operations to a standstill on Friday. Now, it has been reported that China remained largely unaffected by the outage.
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CrowdStrike Update That Caused Global IT Chaos Likely Skipped Quality Checks: Experts
Security experts said CrowdStrike's routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients' computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks before it was deployed.
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Flights Resume After Massive Microsoft Outage Disrupts Operations
Planes were gradually taking off again Saturday after global airlines, banks and media were thrown into turmoil by one of the biggest IT crashes in recent years, caused by an update to an antivirus program.
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CrowdStrike, Delta Sue Each Other Over Flight Disruptions Due To July Crash
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said on Monday it sued Delta Air Lines in US District Court in Georgia after a faulty software update prompted a global outage in July.
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Microsoft Plans to Make Windows More Resilient to CrowdStrike-Like Incidents via New Platform
Microsoft Windows will be updated with improvements that are aimed at enhancing its resilience against incidents triggered by security firm, such as the global outage caused by CrowdStrike in July. After its Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit, Microsoft announced its intention to help security vendors adapt their solutions to function outsi...
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Telegram-Linked TON Blockchain Back Online After Hours-Long Outage: Here's What Happened
The TON blockchain stopped processing transactions for a notable time period on Wednesday. Several members of the global blockchain community shared screenshots showing that the blockchain was not creating new blocks. The observers also noted that it took up to eight hours for the TON blockchain to be up and running again.
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X Down? Several Users Report Outage Across the Globe, Including India
X (formerly Twitter) suffered an outage in India and globally during the early hours of Wednesday. The microblogging website, which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk, left users unable to access it or its features on both mobile and web platforms. Over 20,000 user reports were logged on a website which detects and monitors downtime activity.
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Microsoft to Host Cybersecurity Summit After CrowdStrike-Induced IT Outage
Microsoft has announced that it will host a summit next month that will let industry members understand how to improve cybersecurity systems, in the aftermath of a faulty update from security firm CrowdStrike that left millions of Windows computers around the world in an unusable state on July 19. The gathering on September 10 at its headquarters w...
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Microsoft Says Delta Airlines' Lack of Modernised IT Delayed its Recovery After Recent Outage
Microsoft has said that Delta, unlike its competitors, apparently had not modernised its IT infrastructure that caused the airlines to struggle with recovery. Delta, however, said it has invested billions of dollars in IT capital expenditures since 2016.
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CrowdStrike Conducts External Review to Better Understand What Triggered the Global Outage
CrowdStrike, the US-based cybersecurity firm, caused a global outage on July 19 after an update resulted in Windows laptops and desktops crashing and getting stuck in the boot loop. After fixing the issue, the company published a post-incident report highlighting that its artificial intelligence (AI) system dubbed Falcon sensor caused an error. Now...
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Microsoft Blames Delta For Its Struggle To Recover From Global Outage
Microsoft blamed Delta Air Lines on Tuesday for its dayslong struggle to recover from a global cyber outage that led it to cancel more than 6,000 flights.
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Delta CEO Slams Microsoft As "Most Fragile" Platform After Global Outage
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian declared Microsoft "the most fragile" platform after a massive IT outage last month caused chaos across the world.
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This Country Asks Microsoft, CrowdStrike To Pay For Losses Due To IT Outage
Malaysia's digital minister, Gobind Singh Deo, has asked Microsoft and CrowdStrike to consider compensating companies that suffered losses during last week's global tech outage, Reuters reported.
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CrowdStrike Says 'Bug In Content Validator" Caused Global Tech Outage
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company that caused a global computer outage last week, on Wednesday said that the breakdown stemmed from a flaw in its test software.
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Why Home Computers Were Not Affected By Global Microsoft Outage
Microsoft, the US-based tech giant, estimated that 8.5 million computers worldwide were affected due to the outage. The tech glitch happened on July 19 after Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity software company, rolled out its routine update.
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This Country Was Left Untouched By Biggest-Ever IT Outage
Microsoft's global outage created havoc. From airline to broadcasting, the blue screen error, in a way, brought the daily operations to a standstill on Friday. Now, it has been reported that China remained largely unaffected by the outage.
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CrowdStrike Update That Caused Global IT Chaos Likely Skipped Quality Checks: Experts
Security experts said CrowdStrike's routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients' computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks before it was deployed.
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Flights Resume After Massive Microsoft Outage Disrupts Operations
Planes were gradually taking off again Saturday after global airlines, banks and media were thrown into turmoil by one of the biggest IT crashes in recent years, caused by an update to an antivirus program.
