Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 30 July 2024 CrowdStrike blue screen bug serves a stark warning Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we analyse the lessons from the global IT outage caused by the blue screen bug in CrowdStrike security software. We talk to the data…
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Getting to the top role in an industry comes with a fresh set of pressures – after all, with great power comes great responsibility. In the case of the chief information security officer (CISO), this would apparently be the ultimate role for many to aspire to: it can allow budgetary control, building policies and strategies,…
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The majority of CrowdStrike Falcon sensors affected by a botched rapid response update were back up and running prior to the weekend of 27 and 28 July, as efforts to remediate the 19 July incident that caused more than eight million Windows machines to crash continue. Writing on LinkedIn on 26 July, CrowdStrike CEO George…
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As global efforts to recover and learn from the Friday 19 July CrowdStrike incident continue, cyber criminals and scammers are predictably lurking on the fringes of the discourse, picking off unsuspecting victims, supported by over newly created malicious domains associated with CrowdStrike’s branding. This is according to web security specialist Akamai, which said its researchers…
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A 2009 EU anti-competition ruling has been used as a line of defence by Microsoft as questions are being asked over why a third-party product was able to take down Windows. On Friday 19 July, 8.5 million PCs experienced the so-called Blue Screen of Death, which occurs when the Windows operating system (OS) experiences a…
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Microsoft’s response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing investigation into its cloud licensing practices has seen it accuse arch-rivals Amazon and Google of “muddying the waters” with their contributions to the probe. The software giant has issued a 27-page response to a working paper the CMA published in June 2024 that detailed the…
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The new Labour government should place an outright ban on artificial intelligence (AI)-powered “predictive policing” and biometric surveillance systems, on the basis they are disproportionately used to target racialised, working class and migrant communities, a civil society coalition has said. In an open letter to home secretary Yvette Cooper, the #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition has called…
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In the 18 months since the launch of ChatGPT introduced the concept of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to the world, most business have played with the technology, many have trialled real-world applications, but so far few have gone all-in on using GenAI across their organisations. However, that is set to change as more of the…
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Microsoft users across the globe should review the state of their infrastructure security setups in the wake of the botched CrowdStrike software update that took millions of Windows devices across the world offline on Friday 19 July 2024. As stated in a blog post, authored by Microsoft’s vice-president of enterprise and operating system security, David…
Since it was founded in 1754, The Royal and Ancient Golf Club (The R&A) has been a bastion of sporting tradition and history, preserving the rules and spirit of the game – as well as organising the annual Open championship. But it’s also a provider of underground fibre-optic networking and a pioneer in private 5G…
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