Security News

Washington courts grapple with statewide outage after 'unauthorized activity'
2024-11-05 14:29

Justice still being served, but many systems are down A statewide IT outage attributed to "unauthorized activity" is affecting the availability of services provided by all courts in Washington.…

The Playstation Network is down in a global outage
2024-10-01 01:26

The PlayStation Network is suffering a global outage, with subscribers confirming that they can no longer play online games or access the company's website. [...]

Verizon outage: iPhones, Android devices stuck in SOS mode
2024-09-30 15:58

A widespread Verizon outage is causing iPhones and Android devices to enter SOS mode, preventing them from making mobile calls unless they use WiFi calling. [...]

CrowdStrike apologizes to Congress for 'perfect storm' that caused global IT outage
2024-09-25 01:23

Argues worse could happen if it loses kernel access CrowdStrike is "deeply sorry" for the "perfect storm of issues" that saw its faulty software update crash millions of Windows machines, leading...

MoneyGram confirms a cyberattack is behind dayslong outage
2024-09-24 12:48

Money transfer giant MoneyGram has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack after dealing with system outages and customer complaints about lack of service since Friday. [...]

Organizations are changing cybersecurity providers in wake of Crowdstrike outage
2024-09-23 12:33

More often than not, a cyber attack or a cyber incident that results in business disruption will spur organizations to make changes to improve their cybersecurity and cyber resilience – and...

1 in 10 orgs dumping their security vendors after CrowdStrike outage
2024-09-19 16:13

Many left reeling from July's IT meltdown, but not to worry, it was all unavoidable Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) says one in ten organizations in the country affected by...

Cloudflare outage cuts off access to websites in some regions
2024-09-17 18:52

A rolling Cloudflare outage is impacting access to web sites worldwide, including BleepingComputer, with sites working in some regions and not others. [...]

CrowdStrike engages external experts, details causes of massive outage
2024-08-07 12:56

CrowdStrike has published a technical root cause analysis of what went wrong when a content update pushed to its Falcon sensors borked over 8.5 million Windows machines around the world on July 19, and has confirmed that it has hired two unnamed third-party software security vendors to review the security and quality assurance of the Falcon sensor code. Expanding on its preliminary post-incident review, the company went into more detail about how the faulty Rapid Response Content - delivered as content configuration updates - failed to be spotted before doing damage.

CrowdStrike Reveals Root Cause of Global System Outages
2024-08-07 10:28

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has published its root cause analysis detailing the Falcon Sensor software update crash that crippled millions of Windows devices globally. Specifically, it's related to a problematic content update deployed over the cloud, describing it as a "Confluence" of several problems that led to a crash: A mismatch between the 21 inputs passed to the Content Validator via the IPC Template Type as opposed to the 20 supplied to the Content Interpreter.