Tag: crowdstrike outage

CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners...

How to prevent your software update from being the next CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike released a relatively minor patch on Friday, and somehow it wreaked havoc on large swaths of the IT world running Microsoft Windows,...

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

As much of the world slowly gets back online after an outage caused by cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike led to global travel and business...

These startups are trying to prevent another CrowdStrike-like outage, according to VCs

Windows users around the globe woke up on Friday morning to “blue screens of death” thanks to a faulty software update from CrowdStrike....

CrowdStrike outage: How your plane, train and automobile travel may be affected

The CrowdStrike outage that hit early Friday morning and knocked out computers running Microsoft Windows has grounded flights globally. Major U.S. airlines including United...

CrowdStrike chaos leads to grounded aircraft — and maybe an unusual weather effect

Air traffic for many airlines ground to a halt after a buggy update from CrowdStrike took down Windows computers around the world. At...