Category: Media
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Microsoft-CrowdStrike’s Outage Heralds ‘Increased Vulnerabilities’ Period
in MediaA massive system outage disrupted systems around the world, grounding flights, disrupting health care, transport and logistics, banking services and critical infrastructure. The issue hit computers running Microsoft Windows operating system and CrowdStrike software. “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” the company…
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How the CrowdStrike outage carved out new opportunities for hackers
in MediaOn Nextgov/FCW, former U.S. officials and security practitioners are wondering how a defective CrowdStrike patch for Windows systems fell through the cracks and created more cascading security risks. CrowdStrike will likely survive and move forward, but, reputationally, it can’t afford another incident like this, said William MacMillan, a former CISO at the CIA. “The update…
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Venture Beat: CrowdStrike’s IT outage makes it clear why cyber resilience matters
in MediaA misconfigured content update released by CrowdStrike late on Thursday inadvertently triggered worldwide outages across Microsoft Windows systems, taking many of the world’s most essential services offline. CrowdStrike was attempting to update content that their Falcon Sensor uses to perform real-time threat detection and endpoint protection by monitoring system activities that identify suspicious behavior to prevent cyber…
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Start-Ups: 10 Tips for Navigating the Headwinds Against High-Growth
in MediaIf the last two years have taught our industry anything, it’s time to retire to “cybersecurity is recession-proof” colloquialism. Not only have vendors seen cuts and challenges that they didn’t even face in the 2000 and 2008 downturns – but even internal security teams and budgets have been reduced, and defenders have fewer resources against…