CrowdStrike is denying Delta’s claims it was to blame for thousands...
CrowdStrike has rejected Delta Air Lines' claim that it is responsible for $500 million worth of damage caused by the IT outage on Friday July 19 resulting in thousands of flight disruptions.In a letter sent to Delta on behalf of CrowdStrike signed by Michael Carlinsky, a co-managing partner at law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &…
Delta CEO says IT outage cost the airline $500 million, and...
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said the mass IT outage, which resulted in days of delays and cancellations, cost the airline $500 million.Delta canceled several thousand flights over several days after an IT meltdown caused by a flawed update issued by Texas-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.Bastian told CNBC in an interview on Wednesday that the half-a-billion figure…
97% of CrowdStrike systems are back online; Microsoft suggests Windows changes
Enlarge / A bad update to CrowdStrike's Falcon security software crashed millions of Windows PCs last week.CrowdStrike CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said Thursday that 97 percent of all Windows systems running its Falcon sensor software were back online, a week after an update-related outage to the corporate security software delayed flights and took down emergency…
CrowdStrike sent its partners $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an...
CrowdStrike, the cyber security firm responsible for last week's global tech outage, is thanking its partners for their extra work in the aftermath of the crash with $10 Uber Eats gift cards.Social media users began posting screenshots of the gift cards and an accompanying CrowdStrike email online on Tuesday, with some complaining that the credit…
CrowdStrike blames testing bugs for security update that took down 8.5M...
Enlarge / CrowdStrike's Falcon security software brought down as many as 8.5 million Windows PCs over the weekend. CrowdStrike Security firm CrowdStrike has posted a preliminary post-incident report about the botched update to its Falcon security software that caused as many as 8.5 million Windows PCs to crash over the weekend, delaying flights, disrupting emergency…
Parents say Delta stranded their kids while they were flying alone
Some parents say they were left scrambling to help their stranded kids after Delta Air Lines suddenly changed its policies as it grapples with extended delays and cancellations that stretched into the fourth day."It was about three hours of sheer panic," one of the parents, Cecilia Stone, told Business Insider.Delta has axed more than 5,000…
CrowdStrike’s ubiquity under fire as Congress calls for CEO to testify
Enlarge / Travelers navigate customer service and ticketing lines at Ronald Regan Washington National Airport on July 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. A global computer outage started from an update from the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike that impacted flights worldwide along with disrupting broadcasters and banking services. In a letter Monday, the House Committee on Homeland…
Cathie Wood is buying the dip with CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike came under fire after an update triggered last week's massive global tech outage, but Ark Invest's Cathie Wood seems to have identified an investment opportunity amidst the mayhem.According to a Barron's story published Monday, two of Wood's exchange-traded funds purchased nearly $12 million of CrowdStrike stock on Friday, the day the tech debacle occurred.The…
CrowdStrike Outage: How to Fix Your Windows PC With the Blue...
The worst of it may finally be over, but some people are still dealing with the CrowdStrike chaos.Last Thursday's event, a Microsoft outage that crippled airlines and financial, health-care and energy companies across the world, resulted for many in a "blue screen of death" on their work computers. In response, Microsoft on Saturday released a recovery tool…
Microsoft says 8.5M systems hit by CrowdStrike BSOD, releases USB recovery...
Enlarge / A bad update to CrowdStrike's Falcon security software crashed millions of Windows PCs last week.CrowdStrike By Monday morning, many of the major disruptions from the flawed CrowdStrike security update late last week had cleared up. Flight delays and cancellations were no longer front-page news, and multiple Starbucks locations near me are taking orders…
