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CrowdStrike President Accepts Award for ‘Most Epic Fail’ Following World’s Largest IT Outage

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CrowdStrike President Accepts Award for ‘Most Epic Fail’ Following World’s Largest IT Outage

The CrowdStrike outage caused approximately 8.5 million Windows computers to fail worldwide. Some of these computers ran critical infrastructure, such as emergency services, hospitals and airports. The outage was caused by a faulty driver update rolled out for CrowdStrike’s cybersecurity software. The update caused an estimated 8.5 million Windows machines to fall into boot loops […]

CrowdStrike recognizes global IT collapse and accepts “Most Epic Fail” award at Pwnie Awards

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CrowdStrike recognizes global IT collapse and accepts “Most Epic Fail” award at Pwnie Awards

CrowdStrikea leading cybersecurity company, recently suffered a significant setback when a software update triggered a global IT meltdown. Despite the negative headlines, the company has decided to tackle the problem head-on. Pwnie AwardsAt the awards ceremony at the Def Con conference, CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas accepted the award for “biggest failure,” acknowledging the company’s recent […]