Tag: hackers

  • How the CrowdStrike outage carved out new opportunities for hackers

    How the CrowdStrike outage carved out new opportunities for hackers

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    On 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…

  • Venture Beat: CrowdStrike’s IT outage makes it clear why cyber resilience matters

    Venture Beat: CrowdStrike’s IT outage makes it clear why cyber resilience matters

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    A 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…