Last week, some of Microsoft’s apps were knocked offline in an intentional cyber-attack, it said in an update. The company’s attempts to stop the hack amplified it. That meant that some of its apps and features were offline for much of 31 July. It came just days after Windows PCs were hit by a huge outage that brought much of the world to a standstill, cancelling flights and delaying hospital appointments. That was the result of a bug in cybersecurity software made by third-party company Cro
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Delta Air Lines' slogan, "Keep Climbing," is a call to action that reflects the airline's culture of service and continuous improvement. Delta CEO Ed Bastian explained that the slogan is "What's the next mountain we're going to climb?" after reaching the top of one. There have been so many articles about the CrowdStrike disaster; here is another one. But when you see what Delta Airlines has been doing to passengers five days after this one piece of destructive code ate the Internet, you can n
Just this past week, a good friend of mine came back from a 2-week vacation in Scotland. He and his wife had a great time walking an old ancient trail along many lakes and mountains. He stayed at various BnB’s and hotels. One thing that bothered my friend is that almost all places of business in Scotland, including the airport in Glasgow, demanded payment with a credit card – another words, e-commerce transitions only. My friend took over 1,000 in British Pounds (cash) to pay for whatever he
A Microsoft outage starting during the evening of 18 July which crippled airlines, financial services, health-care and many energy companies across the world, resulting for many in a "blue screen of death" on their work computers. In response, Microsoft on Saturday released a recovery tool to help repair Windows machines affected by the bug, a day after CrowdStrike provided instructions for how to fix a crashed PC.
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Behind a massive IT failure that grounded flights, upended markets and disrupted corporations around the world is one cybersecurity company: CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. Known as a dominant supplier of software that protects businesses from ransomware attacks, CrowdStrike was thrust into the spotlight on 19 July as it struggled to fix a faulty patch that led to cascading, system-wide failures, paralyzing the operations of clients ranging from banks to global retail giants to health-care systems.
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The latest edition of the CrowdStrike Global Threat Report[1] comes at an important time for protectors around the world. As organizations focus on managing remote and hybrid teams, operationalizing years of digital transformation and navigating an uncertain global economy, adversaries have become more sophisticated, relentless and damaging in their attacks. As a result, a number of disruptive trends emerged in 2022 that threaten productivity and global stability.
The year started ominously as
