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Sonic Automotive says ransomware-linked CDK software outage cost it $30M
2024-08-06 16:42

One of the US's largest car dealerships says the IT outage caused by CDK Global's June ransomware attack cost it approximately $30 million. Sonic Automotive filed a Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday alongside the release of its quarterly financials, confirming that like its rivals, it too was materially affected by the incident at CDK. Of the total $30 million drop in pre-tax GAAP income, $11.6 million of that related to additional compensation paid to staff, and possibly external contractors, who helped to handle the outage, it said.

Microsoft Azure outage takes down services across North America
2024-08-05 21:03

​Microsoft has mitigated an Azure outage that lasted more than two hours and took down multiple services for customers across North and Latin America. [...]

Crowdstrike: Delta Air Lines refused free help to resolve IT outage
2024-08-05 20:09

The legal spars between Delta Air Lines and CrowdStrike are heating up, with the cybersecurity firm claiming that Delta's extended IT outage was caused by poor disaster recovery plans and the...

CrowdStrike sued by investors over massive global IT outage
2024-08-02 14:32

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has been sued by investors who say it provided false claims about its Falcon platform after a bad security update led to a massive global IT outage causing the...

Microsoft Confirms Global Azure Outage Caused by DDoS Attack
2024-08-01 16:58

The Azure outage had global reach, impacting a subset of customers attempting to connect to Azure App Services, Application Insights, Azure IoT Central, Azure Log Search Alerts, Azure Policy, the Azure portal itself, and a subset of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview services. Many different organisations made statements on Tuesday, notifying users that their services were disrupted as a result of the Azure DDoS attack.

'Error' in Microsoft's DDoS defenses amplified 8-hour Azure outage
2024-07-31 12:58

Do you have problems configuring Microsoft's Defender? You might not be alone: Microsoft admitted that whatever it's using for its defensive implementation exacerbated yesterday's Azure instability. Microsoft has published its strategy to defend against network-based DDoS attacks, noting it was unique due to the global footprint of the company.

Microsoft says massive Azure outage was caused by DDoS attack
2024-07-31 12:54

Microsoft confirmed that a nine-hour outage on Tuesday, which disrupted numerous Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide, was caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Affected services included Microsoft Entra, Intune, Power BI, Power Platform, Azure App Services, and others.The company explained that their DDoS protection mechanisms were triggered, but an error in the implementation of their defenses exacerbated the attack's impact. Once the issue was identified, Microsoft made networking configuration changes and rerouted to alternate paths to mitigate the problem.

Microsoft: DDoS defense error amplified attack on Azure, leading to outage
2024-07-31 10:42

A DDoS attack that started on Tuesday has made a number of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 services temporarily inaccessible, the company has confirmed. Microsoft's mitigation statement on the Azure status history page.

Microsoft 365 and Azure outage takes down multiple services
2024-07-30 13:20

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Some good may come out of the CrowdStrike outage
2024-07-29 16:30

Estimated financial losses due to the recent massive IT outage triggered by the faulty CrowdStrike update are counted in billions, but the unfortunate incident is having several positive effects, as well. As CrowdStrike was forced to explain, in great detail, how they roll out updates for its Falcon Sensors, what testing they perform beforehand, and how they plan to improve the whole process to prevent similar accidents from happening in the future, other cybersecurity vendors - such as Fortinet, Secureworks, and Bitdefender - have spelled out their own software and content update release processes.