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CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn

Banking and healthcare firms, major airlines expected to suffer most losses, according to insurer Parametrix

The Guardian - US

CrowdStrike: the massive companies you’ve never heard of with a hidden grip on our lives

The world is saturated by services and products provided by companies that have a “secret grip” on the way we live. In 1951, the French-born American industrial designer Raymond Loewy described a typical day “of the average guy” from the moment he wakes up until he goes to bed. The…

The Conversation

A former Microsoft Software Engineer explains CrowdStrike's digital pandemic that left over 8.5 million Windows devices with annoying BSoD errors

Dave Plummer (aka Dave's Garage), a former Microsoft software engineer, recently shared a YouTube video explaining the digital pandemic caused by CrowdStrike.

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It looks as if the best way of avoiding the CrowdStrike drama was to run Windows 3.1 all along

As its competitor airlines were grounded thanks to the CrowdStrike drama, Southwest carried on thanks to a now ancient version of Windows.

Windows Central

Helldivers 2 gets a Crowdstrike-Microsoft situation of its own as Ministry of Truth tells service technicians to manually reboot affected computers 15 times "to bring systems back online"

Don't worry, no holidays have been canceled

GamesRadar

Crowdstrike blames update for letting bad data slip through causing global tech outage

Crowdstrike has blamed a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers

The Independent UK

Delta faces federal investigation following massive CrowdStrike outage

Delta has scrapped hundreds of flights for the fifth straight day after the CrowdStrike outage

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CrowdStrike reveals what went wrong — and it's pretty much what we expected

CrowdStrike thinks it knows what caused the blue screen of death on millions of Windows devices.

TechRadar

Airlines are still recovering from the global tech outage. What are your rights if you’ve been stranded?

Delta Air Lines is still seeing major delays and cancellations following the faulty Crowdstrike update

The Independent UK

Delta Air Lines under investigation as flight cancellations continue days after CrowdStrike outage

Experts said it could take airlines weeks to recover from the massive cybersecurity error

The Independent UK

Options Traders Don’t Like CyberArk (CYBR) But It Could Be a Relative Discount

While the cybersecurity industry incurred a major blow, the criticality of the ecosystem may bode well for CYBR stock.

Barchart

Global IT failure has left me fearing the word ‘upgrade’

Brief letters: CrowdStrike outage | Computer illiterates | Fighting water companies | Long-lived historian | Rubber band saves sole

The Guardian - UK

CrowdStrike CSO blasts own failure as stock plummets: ‘The confidence we built in drips over the years was lost in buckets within hours, and it was a gut punch’

One broker tried to rush out a note recommending investors buy the dip, only to find out his bank's computers were CrowdStriked too.

Fortune

I asked Copilot vs Gemini to explain the massive CrowdStike outage — here’s the winner

I put Google Gemini against Microsoft Copilot to see which could provide the best analysis of the CrowdStrike Global IT outage.

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International Business Times

GOP Lawmakers Demand Public Hearing With CrowdStrike CEO Kurtz On Global Outage

The lawmakers said it is important to understand the outage's causes and the measures CrowdStrike is implementing to prevent future occurrences.

The Guardian - UK

TechScape: Why CrowdStrike-style chaos is here to stay

Countless theories for the cybersecurity firm’s outage are flying, but whatever the reason, the fact is that this sort of thing is likely to happen again

Fortune

CrowdStrike's CEO confronts his own crisis

CrowdStrike’s response to the massive outage it caused remains, at best, underwhelming.

Tom’s Guide

CrowdStrike CEO called to testify over disastrous global outage as Microsoft points finger at EU

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has been called to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee over the global IT outage.

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Evening Standard

Google's $23 billion takeover talks with Wiz fizzle out

What was set to be Google’s biggest-ever acquisition appears to have fizzled out after the tech giant’s $23 billion (£18 billion) takeover talks with Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz were called off.

The Independent UK

Stock market today: Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street breaks losing streak

Shares are mixed in Asia after a rally on Wall Street

Top News

House Leaders Call On Crowdstrike CEO For Testimony

CrowdStrike CEO called to testify after global tech outage; regulators monitoring situation closely.

The Conversation

The CrowdStrike outage caused chaos for business – could we see a class action?

Until last Friday, many businesses hadn’t really dealt with anything quite like the speed and severity of the CrowdStrike IT outage.

The Independent UK

My holiday flight was cancelled due to the Crowdstrike IT outage – can I claim compensation?

The Civil Aviation Authority has reminded airlines of their obligations – but says cash compensation need not be paid

The Independent UK

CrowdStrike chief called to testify over global Microsoft IT outage

Incident must serve as a broader warning about national security risks, US House commitee says

AAP

IT outage compensation talk inevitable: CrowdStrike

The Australian president of CrowdStrike has apologised for the cybersecurity company's role in causing an outage that crippled global IT systems.

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