Tag: Cybersecurity
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...
Hackers shut down heating in Ukrainian city with malware, researchers say
For two days in mid-January, some Ukrainians in the city of Lviv had to live without central heating and suffer freezing temperatures because...
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....
What we know about CrowdStrike’s update fail that’s causing global outages and travel chaos
A faulty software update issued by security giant CrowdStrike has resulted in a massive overnight outage that’s affected Windows computers around the world,...
Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data
At the end of June, a security researcher found a vulnerability in a web app used by a16z, one of the most powerful...