Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams
The security firm CrowdStrike inadvertently caused mayhem around the world on Friday after deploying a faulty software update to the company’s Falcon monitoring platform that…
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The Dumbest Thing In Security This Week: CrowdStrike For The Win
In a week that saw a cryptocurrency exchange lose $235 million to hackers and a botched migration that led to the takeover of four crypto…
UK Teen Allegedly Part Of Scattered Spider Gang Arrested
A 17-year-old from Walsall, England, has been apprehended in connection with the infamous Scattered Spider ransomware syndicate. The teen suspect was taken into custody on…
Healthcare Dark Web Monitoring Insights For CISOs
In today’s digital age, healthcare data has become a prime target for cybercriminals. With a single health record fetching up to $1,000 on the dark…
MediSecure data breach impacted 12.9 million individuals
MediSecure data breach impacted 12.9 million individuals Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2024 Personal and health information of 12.9 million individuals was exposed in a ransomware attack…
CrowdStrike update at center of Windows “Blue Screen of Death” outage
A faulty update from the cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike crashed countless Windows computers and sent them into a “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD), grinding to a…
Number of data breach victims goes up 1,000%
Nope, that headline’s not a typo. Over one thousand percent. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) tracked 1,041,312,601 data breach victims in Q2 2024, an…
Ransomware gang stole data of 12.9 million people
MediSecure, an Australian prescription delivery service provider, revealed that roughly 12.9 million people had their personal and health information stolen in an April ransomware attack. The…
Update: Worldwide IT outage due to buggy Crowdstrike update
The world is 16+ hours into what looks like the biggest IT outage in history, triggered by a defective update for Crowdstrike endpoint security software…
CrowdStrike Releases Fix for Updates Causing Windows to Enter BSOD Loop
CrowdStrike has issued a fix for a problematic update that caused numerous Windows systems to experience the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), rendering them inoperable.…
CrowdStrike update epic fail crashed Windows systems worldwide
CrowdStrike update epic fail crashed Windows systems worldwide Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2024 Windows machines worldwide displayed BSoD screen following a faulty update pushed out…
How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers
That deeper access also introduces a far higher possibility that security software—and updates to that software—will crash the whole system, says Matthieu Suiche, head of…