CrowdStrike's president accepting the 'most epic fail' award in person was a PR masterclass, experts say

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Home Security Giant ADT Admits It Has Been Hacked

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Rabbit Says Former Employee Handed Hacking Collective the Keys to the R1’s Backend

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America’s Cyber Security Agency Picks Its First Head of AI

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This is the 2nd time CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has been at the center of a global tech failure

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This is the second major debacle for Crowdstrike founder and CEO George Kurtz.

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

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A departure board shows canceled flights at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport amid the CrowdStrike mass IT outage.
A departure board shows canceled flights amid the CrowdStrike IT outage.

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Inundated IT workers commiserate, marvel at 'historic' CrowdStrike outage

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IT professionals commiserated over the "historic" incident on Reddit.

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CrowdStrike's terms and conditions say most customers would just get a refund due to the massive outage, cybersecurity lawyer says

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The CrowdStrike outage disrupted airlines, causing delays and grounding flights.

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Global IT outage shows why you should be wary of turning on auto-updates

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IT professionals say there's one way the CrowdStrike outage could have been avoided.

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Did you turn it off and on? Microsoft says some users solved the CrowdStrike problem after rebooting up to 15 times.

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A mass IT outage has disrupted Microsoft systems.

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