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8 major IT disasters of 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

Windows systems at hospitals, airline flight reservation centers, emergency response centers, and public transportation services were among those affected by the outage. Meanwhile, Delta Airlines filed a $500 million lawsuit against CrowdStrike and Microsoft and reconsidered its use of Microsoft products.

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6 insights every CIO should take away from the CrowdStrike debacle

CIO Business Intelligence

But before we can even get started: It appears that, no matter how appealing the story, Southwest Airlines wasn’t immune to the CrowdStrike bug because its servers run on Windows 3.1. For an in-depth view, see “ No, Southwest Airlines is not still using Windows 3.1 — OSnews.”) Once upon the same time there was malware.

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Seis conclusiones que todo CIO debería extraer de la debacle de CrowdStrike

CIO Business Intelligence

Pero antes incluso de empezar: parece que, por muy atractiva que sea la historia, Southwest Airlines no era inmune al fallo CrowdStrike porque sus servidores funcionan con Windows 3.1. Para una visión en profundidad, véase No, Southwest Airlines no sigue utilizando Windows 3.1 – OSnews ). Érase una vez el malware.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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8 grandi disastri del 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

Nel frattempo, Delta Airlines ha intentato una causa da 500 milioni di dollari [in inglese] contro CrowdStrike e Microsoft e ha riconsiderato luso dei prodotti di questultima. Fuoco amico A febbraio, il produttore cinese di PC Acemagic ha ammesso di aver venduto macchine con malware [in inglese] installato.

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Iranian Cyber Ops Used Facebook to Spy on U.S. Targets

SecureWorld News

Now you can add this one: nation-state cyber actors using the platform to distribute malware and conduct espionage operations. This group used various malicious tactics to identify its targets and infect their devices with malware to enable espionage.". Outsourcing malware development. Privacy violations?

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Beyond the CrowdStrike outage: The larger forces at play, and a long-term view on cybersecurity

GeekWire

An American Airlines check-in kiosk in recovery mode following the CrowdStrike outage on July 19, 2024, at Sea-Tac Airport. Despite the disruption, in some ways it’s a very good sign that CrowdStrike is leaning into rapid defense, accelerating their deployment infrastructure, and beating the pace of malware deployment.