Cybersecurity has become a white-hot topic in the world of technology. Not only are data breaches continuing unabated; but security companies themselves are very much in the spotlight as a result – with one of the fastest-growing, Wiz, the object…
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Hackers shut down heating in Ukrainian city with malware, researchers say
Cybersecurity firm Dragos and Ukrainian authorities found a cyberattack targeting critical infrastructure in Lviv. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Hackers shut…
Wiz walks away from Google’s $23B acquisition offer: Read the CEO’s note to employees
Cybersecurity startup Wiz has turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Alphabet, Google’s parent company, according to a source familiar with discussions. Despite the offer representing a substantial premium over its last private valuation of $12 billion, Wiz’s management…
CrowdStrike’s fallout, Harris’s stance on tech and Yandex’s rise from the ashes
On today’s episode of Equity, Rebecca Bellan did a deep dive into the CrowdStrike outage that affected around 8.5 million Windows devices around the world, causing disruptions in air travel, banking, hospitals, media outlets, federal agencies and businesses of all…
TechCrunch Minute: What caused last week’s major tech outage?
Late last week, there was a worldwide tech outage that affected everything from airports to banks to healthcare. Flights were grounded across the United States. So, what actually happened? The source of all those problems seems to be a popular…
Linx emerges from stealth with $33M to lock down the new security perimeter: Identity
Identity management is one of the most common fulcrums around which security breaches have pivoted in the last several years, and one of the main reasons it’s the gift that keeps on giving to malicious hackers is that it’s a…
CIA AI director Lakshmi Raman claims the agency is taking a ‘thoughtful approach’ to AI
As a part of TechCrunch’s ongoing Women in AI series, which seeks to give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch interviewed Lakshmi Raman, the director of AI at the CIA. We talked…
Unpacking how Alphabet’s rumored Wiz acquisition could affect VC
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. TechCrunch’s sources heard similar and added that deal discussions could last into next week. If…
Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage
Around 8.5 million devices — less than 1 percent Windows machines globally — were affected by the recent CrowdStrike outage, according to a Microsoft blog post by David Weston, the company’s vice president of enterprise and OS security. These are…
CrowdStrike outage: How your plane, train and automobile travel may be affected
The CrowdStrike outage that hit early Friday morning and knocked out computers running Microsoft Windows has grounded flights globally. Major U.S. airlines including United Airlines, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines have halted flight operations around the world. According to…
CrowdStrike’s rivals stand to benefit from its debacle
CrowdStrike competes with a number of vendors, including SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks but also Microsoft, Trellix, Trend Micro and Sophos, in the endpoint security market. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This article has been…
What we know about CrowdStrike’s update fail that’s causing global outages and travel chaos
Here’s everything you need to know so far about the global outages caused by CrowdStrike’s buggy software update. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the…
Here’s how the CrowdStrike outage is affecting planes, trains and automobiles
The CrowdStrike outage that hit early Friday morning and knocked out computers running Microsoft Windows has grounded flights globally. Major U.S. airlines including United, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines have halted flight operations around the world. According to FlightAware,…
From the Sphere to false cyberattack claims, misinformation runs rampant amid CrowdStrike outage
This serves as an example for how easy it is to spread inaccurate information online during a time of immense global confusion and panic. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This article has been indexed from…
Faulty CrowdStrike update causes major global IT outage, taking out banks, airlines and businesses globally
Security giant CrowdStrike said the outage was not caused by a cyberattack, as businesses anticipate widespread disruption. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original…
CrowdStrike update causes major IT outage, taking out banks, airlines and businesses globally
Businesses across the world are reporting IT outages, including Windows “blue screen of death” errors on their computers, in what has already become one of the most widespread IT disruptions in recent years. The outage — linked to a software…
CrowdStrike update causes major IT outage, taking out banks, airlines and businesses across the world
Businesses across the world are reporting IT outages, including Windows “blue screen of death” errors on their computers, in what has already become one of the most widespread IT disruptions in recent years. The outage — linked to an update…
Major IT outage takes out banks, airlines and businesses across the world
Businesses worldwide on Friday are reporting IT outages, including Windows “blue screen of death” errors on their computers, in what has already become one of the most widespread IT disruptions in recent years. The outage has affected companies across various…
WazirX halts withdrawals after losing $230 million, nearly half its reserves
The Mumbai-based firm said one of its multisig wallets had suffered a security breach, and it was temporarily pausing all withdrawals from the platform. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This article has been indexed from…
USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
The U.S. Postal Service confirmed it took action to “remediate” the data sharing following a TechCrunch investigation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original…