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Archives for July 2024

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
CrowdStrike has a new status dashboard for IT workers affected by Windows BSODs.

That’s according to an update made last night to CrowdStrike’s statement on yesterday’s global outage,

Similar to the above-referenced query, a Dashboard is now available that displays Impacted channels and CIDs and Impacted Sensors. Depending on your subscriptions, it’s available in the Console menu at either:

• Next-GEN SIEM > Dashboard or;

• Investigate > Dashboards

• Named as: hosts_possibly_impacted_by_windows_crashes

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
The CrowdStrike CEO’s latest apology.

In a tweet and blog post, George Kurtz says:

As this incident is resolved, you have my commitment to provide full transparency on how this occurred and the steps we’re taking to prevent anything like this from happening again.

We are working on a technical update and root cause analysis that we will share with everyone as well.

Other updates from CrowdStrike about Friday’s global IT misadventure warn about threat actors impersonating it in phishing attempts and other attacks or advise automated methods (PDF) to track down systems that have been affected.

CrowdStrike outage Blue Screen of Death photos from around the world

Photos of a world seeing blue due to the massive outage affecting Microsoft Windows systems on Friday.

William Joel
Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
Hospitals are canceling elective surgeries because they can’t access patient data.

Hospital systems from New York to Massachusetts to Pennsylvania impacted by the CrowdStrike outage say they’re canceling appointments and shifting to pen and paper. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC had said it would “pause the start of any procedure that requires anesthesia,” according to NBC News, though it’s site now says most of its systems are back online.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Even the Mercedes F1 team had CrowdStrike problems today.

A bad time to get hit with the Blue Screen of Death is probably when you’re preparing for a practice session ahead of the Hungarian GP, especially when the problem has been caused by a team sponsor. But the Mercedes F1 team’s trackside engineering director, Andrew Shovlin, told reporters they were back up after updating affected PCs.

The impact in FP1 was minimal, if not nil. So, it created a bit of work, but we’re back where we need to be now.

 A Mercedes team member, whose shirt bears the logo of team sponsor Crowdstrike, looks on as Windows error screens are seen on their pitwall prior to practice ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Hungary
Windows error screens on the Mercedes pitwall prior to practice ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Hungary.
Photo by Bryn Lennon - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Here’s how big of an impact the CrowdStrike outage had on flights.

This timelapse of Delta, American Airlines, and United air traffic says it all.

Mia Sato
Mia Sato
CrowdStrike CEO: “We’re deeply sorry for the impact we’ve caused.”

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz apologized to customers on the Today show and said that the company “knows what the issue is” that caused the global IT outage early Friday morning.

Thousands of flights have been grounded so far in the massive outage. Some businesses are trying to reboot and bring their systems back themselves.

Chris Welch
Chris Welch
The FBI got into the Trump shooter’s phone with the help of unreleased Cellebrite software.

According to a new Bloomberg report, the FBI’s initial attempts to break into the phone belonging to Thomas Matthew Crooks were unsuccessful.

But that changed once Cellebrite provided the agency with an unreleased, still-in-development update to its software. From there, it took just 40 minutes to access Crooks’ phone, which is described as “a newer Samsung model.”

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Proton Mail is adding an AI writing assistant.

The new Proton Scribe writing tool runs locally on the device and is available to all privacy conscious Proton Mail business customers as an add-on:

Proton Scribe helps users improve their productivity by composing emails based on a prompt, redrafting to better convey a message, and proofreading content. No user data or information is used to train Proton Scribe, and no data is shared with third parties.

Proton says it’s rolling out to web and desktop apps.

An example image of the new Proton Scribe feature for Proton Mail.
Proton Scribe starts from $2.99 per month, or as a freebie for Proton’s Visionary and Lifetime customers.
Image: Proton
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Kaspersky Labs is closing its business in the US.

The Russian cybersecurity company confirmed the move in a statement to Zero Day, saying business opportunities in the US “are no longer viable” and that it’s laying off less than 50 workers.

Last month, the US government announced a ban on Kaspersky’s antivirus software over concerns about national security.