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The Great CrowdStrike Crash: Discussing the Largest IT Outage in History

The Great CrowdStrike Crash, AI’s Role in Employee Smiles

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In episode 341, we cover the unprecedented global IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike update crash, affecting 8.5 million Windows machines. We discuss whether it’s the largest outage in history and discuss ...
Shared Security Podcast
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CrowdStrike Admits it Doesn’t ‘Canary’ Test all Updates

| | canary deployment, CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, Downtime and outages, outage, Outage Investigation, SB Blogwatch
Corporate incompetence: Beleaguered security firm issues initial post-mortem on Friday’s faux pas ...
Security Boulevard
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Global Outage Outrage: CrowdStrike Security Tool Blamed

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BSODs beyond belief: A buggy update to CrowdStrike Falcon made Windows PCs and servers crash—worldwide ...
Security Boulevard
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30,000 Dealerships Down — ‘Ransomware’ Outage Outrage no. 2 at CDK Global

| | Automotive, Automotive industry, Car Dealer, CDK Global, cloud outage, cloud Saas, Downtime and outages, outage, outages, Private Equity, Ransomware, SaaS, SaaS App Security, SB Blogwatch, Software-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Spend more on security! Car and truck dealers fall back on pen and paper as huge SaaS provider gets hacked (again) ...
Security Boulevard
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Facebook/Insta FAIL — ‘Anonymous Sudan’ has a Super Tuesday: ‘We Did It.’

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Shooper Choosday: Was yesterday’s Meta outage outrage caused by a Russian DDoS? ...
Security Boulevard
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Microsoft Repeatedly Burned in ‘Layer 7’ DDoS

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Unlucky number: Time and again this month, “Russian” hackers bring down Microsoft clouds ...
Security Boulevard

Network Outage at Some Recipe Unlimited Locations Caused by Malware

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A malware outbreak was responsible for a network outage that affected a limited number of Recipe Unlimited restaurant locations. On 1 October, Recipe Unlimited announced a malware attack of which it learned ...
The State of Security

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