Faulty update from cybersecurity company grounded hospitals, airports and payment systems in July A CrowdStrike senior executive apologized for causing a global software outage that ground the operations of hospitals, airports, payment systems and personal computers around the world to a halt in July. Adam Meyers, senior vice-president for counter-adversary operations at CrowdStrike, testified before Congress on Tuesday. Meyers will speak to the House homeland security cybersecurity and infrastructure protection subcommittee. In his testimony, he said: “I am here today because, just over two months ago, on July 19, we let our customers down … On behalf of everyone at CrowdStrike, I want to apologize.” He will say the company has undertaken “a full review of our systems” to prevent the cascade of errors from occurring again. Continue reading...

Company says it will vigorously defend claim by pension fund that its stock price was kept artificially high CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company behind July’s mass computer outage around the world, has been issued with an investor lawsuit accusing it of defrauding investors. The class action suit, filed in Texas by Plymouth County Retirement Association, a pension fund, argues that CrowdStrike misled investors by attesting that the company’s technology was “validated, tested and certified”. In fact, the investors say, CrowdStrike’s software was no such thing. Continue reading...

Widespread outage linked to Windows workstations has affected major companies, including the ABC and Sky News Australia Businesses including banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline after blue screen of death error screens were seen on Windows workstations across the globe. Users in Australia began reporting issues early on Friday afternoon AEST, stating they’d been locked out of their workstations. Australian banking apps and supermarket systems were also affected. Australian broadcasters the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Sky News confirmed they were having broadcast difficulties as a result. Continue reading...