Tag: Incident

  • ClownStrike: CrowdStrike’s Faulty Update that Broke the Internet

    ClownStrike: CrowdStrike’s Faulty Update that Broke the Internet

    Global cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike unintentionally became the reason for a massive Denial-of-Service(DoS) last Friday when a routine update to their endpoint security platform Falcon went horribly wrong. A faulty component pushed with the update triggered a logic error in Windows PCs worldwide causing them to get stuck on Blue Screens of Death(BSOD) and in never-ending boot loops. The update contained newly observed malicious pipes being used…