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CrowdStrike blames bug for allowing bad data upload that led to global tech crash

Headline from CBS News, on the newest of 3 developments

CrowdStrike released details about the cause of an outage that took down computers across the globe, blaming "problematic content data."

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  1. Timeline: How the CrowdStrike outage unfolded

    Headline from Local News 8 ·

  2. CrowdStrike shares tumble as fallout from global tech outage continues

    Headline from NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth ·

  3. Newest

    CrowdStrike blames bug for allowing bad data upload that led to global tech crash

    Headline from CBS News ·

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  1. Investor's Business Daily

    CrowdStrike Outage Causes Major Disruptions Worldwide (opens Investor's Business Daily)

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    Investor's Business Daily's feed description

    Business operations across various industries were disrupted worldwide Friday due to a CrowdStrike outage. Stocks fall.

  2. CNN

    What is Crowdstrike and how is it linked to the global outage? (opens CNN)

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    CNN's feed description

    The global computer outage affecting airports, banks and other businesses on Friday appears to stem at least partly from a software update issued by major US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, experts told CNN.

  3. Washington Examiner

    CrowdStrike outage causes problems worldwide (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Washington Examiner's feed description

    The worldwide CrowdStrike outage affecting Microsoft Windows computers on Friday caused problems not just for airlines, but for other industries.

  4. Newsweek

    How CrowdStrike caused massive Microsoft outage (opens Newsweek)

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    Newsweek's feed description

    The issue could go on for "quite a while" said one expert.

  5. Breitbart News

    Global IT Outages Linked to Microsoft, CrowdStrike Cause Widespread Disruption (opens Breitbart News)

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    Breitbart News's feed description

    A widespread IT outage linked to a software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has caused significant disruptions to businesses and services worldwide, affecting banks, airports, TV stations, and hotels.

  6. Investor's Business Daily

    CrowdStrike Outage Hits Airlines, Global Travel (opens Investor's Business Daily)

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    Investor's Business Daily's feed description

    CrowdStrike outage: The update glitch has caused a global IT outage, with huge disruptions to businesses, news organizations and and travel.

  7. France 24

    Crowdstrike's massive global IT crash: Here's what you need to know (opens France 24)

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    France 24's feed description

    US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike on Friday said it ‘had deployed’ a fix for a faulty software update that caused technology outages in much of the world, disrupting banks, airports, health care and…

  8. NBC10 Philadelphia

    CrowdStrike issue causes major outage affecting businesses around the world (opens NBC10 Philadelphia)

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    NBC10 Philadelphia's feed description

    An update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike led to a major IT outage on Friday, impacting businesses around the world.

  9. Time

    CrowdStrike's Role In the Microsoft IT Outage, Explained (opens Time)

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    Time's feed description

    Cybersecurity technology company CrowdStrike has apologized for the update that caused a major Microsoft IT outage.

  10. Forbes

    CrowdStrike Update Causes Global Microsoft Outage Affecting Banks, Airlines And More (opens Forbes)

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    Forbes's feed description

    Microsoft blamed the issue on an errant update pushed by cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike to businesses using Windows machines.

  11. CNET

    Microsoft Outage: Crowdstrike Update Affects Flights, Hospitals and Businesses Globally (opens CNET)

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    CNET's feed description

    Ongoing issues from the outage wreaked havoc across the medical and travel industries, with flights and medical procedures canceled and delayed due to a faulty cybersecurity update.

  12. Scientific American

    Worldwide Tech Outage Started with Defective Crowdstrike Update to Microsoft Windows (opens Scientific American)

    Published

  13. Investopedia

    Microsoft Outage Triggered by CrowdStrike Update Causes Global Chaos (opens Investopedia)

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    Investopedia's feed description

    Microsoft’s cloud services were hit by an outage, triggered by an update to CrowdStrike's security software, grounding planes and affecting businesses worldwide.

  14. Forbes

    CrowdStrike’s Massive Global Tech Outage: Airlines, Hospitals, Banks, 911, Governments Impacted (opens Forbes)

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    Forbes's feed description

    Outages still linger even as Microsoft and CrowdStrike say they deployed fixes.

  15. Salon

    "Largest IT outage in history" grounds grounds planes and knocks key services offline globally (opens Salon)

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    Salon's feed description

    CrowdStrike, a major cybersecurity company, claimed its issues began with a faulty Microsoft Windows update.

  16. Insider

    Crowdstrike says the global IT outage was not caused by a cyberattack (opens Insider)

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    Insider's feed description

    Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz said the computer chaos was due to a defect in an update for Windows and "not a security incident or cyberattack."

  17. Townhall

    CrowdStrike Gives Update After 'Largest IT Outage in History' Leads to Global Disruptions (opens Townhall)

    Published

  18. NBC News

    CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks, experts say (opens NBC News)

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    NBC News's feed description

    Security experts said CrowdStrike’s routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients’ computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks before it was deployed.

  19. Bloomberg

    CrowdStrike and the Global IT Outage, Explained (opens Bloomberg)

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    Bloomberg's feed description

    A massive IT failure by CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. on Friday, July 19 grounded flights, upended markets and disrupted corporations around the world. CrowdStrike shares dropped as much as 15%. The impact of the disruption, which was compounded by an apparently unrelated issue with Microsoft Corp.

  20. Bloomberg

    US Federal Agencies Hit in Outage Caused by CrowdStrike Glitch (opens Bloomberg)

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    Bloomberg's feed description

    US federal agencies were among those reeling from a massive technology outage Friday after a flawed software update by CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. disrupted global computer networks.

  21. Local News 8

    Timeline: How the CrowdStrike outage unfolded (opens Local News 8)

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    Local News 8's feed description

    By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — A global software outage Friday brought many computer systems across business, healthcare, technology and government sectors to a screeching halt in under 12 hours.

  22. Investopedia

    What We Learned From the Global Tech Outage Caused by CrowdStrike (opens Investopedia)

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    Investopedia's feed description

    After a CrowdStrike update caused an outage affecting organizations across the world, analysts said there could be lasting implications for the company and the big tech industry.

  23. Insider

    CrowdStrike 'too critical' to be written off after huge IT outage hits operations around the world, analyst says (opens Insider)

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    Insider's feed description

    A global IT outage linked to the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused chaos at transport hubs, banks, and more on Friday.

  24. NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

    The Crowdstrike outage and global software's single-point failure problem (opens NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

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    NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth's feed description

    The CrowdStrike software bug that took down Microsoft operating system-based IT around the globe exposed a ‘single-point’ failure risk that is rising.

  25. Insider

    7 things you need to know about the huge CrowdStrike IT outage (opens Insider)

    Published

    Insider's feed description

    The outage, linked to a rogue update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, affected operations around the world — with disruption likely to continue.

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