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'Most Epic Failure': CrowdStrike wins ironic award for global IT failure

CrowdStrike's president, Michael Sentonas, received the "Most Epic Fail" award at the Pwnie Awards ceremony. Just a few weeks ago, a software update from CrowdStrike resulted in a global outage affecting clients' IT systems. Instead of shying away f...

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CrowdStrike sent affected customers $10 Uber Eats gift cards - they turned out to be canceled

The company CrowdStrike, which caused millions of computers worldwide to fail due to a botched update, offered some affected users an Uber Eats gift card. And guess what? The cards don't work. The company acknowledged that it forced customers to do e...

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CrowdStrike internal study - 8.5 million computers crashing caused a 40KB file

CrowdStrike has released a post-incident review (PIR) regarding a faulty update that incapacitated 8.5 million computers. The issue is attributed to the testing software. The software glitch failed to properly verify the content update that was distr...

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From Linux kernel panic to critical Windows crash - CrowdStrike antivirus "kills" PCs with different operating systems

Last week, a significant computer failure shook the world. Due to the "blue screen of death" and cyclical reboots, Windows computers ceased to function in numerous organizations, including banks, transportation, and financial firms, among others. It ...

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Windows 3.1 saved a U.S. airline from CrowdStrike by CrowdStrike

Southwest Airlines, the fourth largest airline in the U.S., was largely unaffected by the CrowdStrike issue due to its usage of Windows 3.1. Chaos ensued only among those airlines that were utilizing current versions of Windows. Released in 1992, Win...

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Microsoft advises restarting your computer 15 times to remove CrowdStrike's "blue screen of death" in Windows

The technology we deserve. Microsoft appears to have found a solution to what could be the biggest outage in IT history — according to the corporation, all you need to do is reboot your computer… repeatedly. The advice was noted by the site 404 Media...

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Not now, Intel! Processor maker launches poll on "favorite computer era" in the midst of massive IT disruption

While the whole world is trying to overcome the consequences of the crash caused by an error in the CrowdStrike antivirus update, Intel launches a poll about users' favorite computer era. On the official British page of the processor manufacturer on ...

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