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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...
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.
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 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.
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.
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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.
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A major disruption to Windows PCs in the U.S., U.K., Australia, South Africa and other countries was caused by an error in a CrowdStrike update, the cloud security company announced on Friday. Blue Screen of Death widespread due to CrowdStrike outage.