When the now infamous CrowdStrike software update took down companies all over the world in July, it was inevitable that lawsuits would follow — and follow they have. Delta suing the company for as much as $ 500 million in damages and hiring lawyer David Boies is perhaps the highest-profile example. Among Boies’ wide range […]
CrowdStrike accepts award for ‘most epic fail’ after global IT outage
Just a few weeks after its software update triggered a global IT meltdown, CrowdStrike isn’t shying away from the spotlight. In fact, the company’s president Michael Sentonas even took the stage at the Pwnie Awards to accept the award for Most Epic Fail. The awards took place at Def Con, right after the Black Hat conference where CrowdStrike had […]
After global IT meltdown, CrowdStrike courts hackers with action figures and gratitude
On Wednesday morning, thousands of cybersecurity professionals swarmed the halls of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, the epicenter of the annual Black Hat cybersecurity conference, where dozens of companies were advertising their wares. In the first row and with one of the biggest booths stood CrowdStrike, a company that has recently become […]
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $ 10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one. On Tuesday, […]
How to prevent your software update from being the next CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike released a relatively minor patch on Friday, and somehow it wreaked havoc on large swaths of the IT world running Microsoft Windows, bringing down airports, healthcare facilities and 911 call centers. While we know a faulty update caused the problem, we don’t know how it got released in the first place. A company like […]