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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 receives award for “biggest failure” after global IT outage

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CrowdStrike receives award for “biggest failure” after global IT outage

Just 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 ceremony took place at Def Con, right after the Black Hat conference, […]