Congress grills CrowdStrike about multibillion-dollar July outage

CrowdStrike senior vice president Adam Meyers apologized for the disaster, laying out the technical missteps that allowed a faulty configuration update to balloon into a “Blue Screen of Death” on more than 8 million Windows devices running CrowdStrike’s antivirus sensors.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/24/congress-grills-crowdstrike-about-multibillion-dollar-july-outage/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Ask Help Desk: Stop auto-correct from ducking up

From perplexing auto-corrections to the best way to call 911, we are answering your biggest tech questions. https://wapo.st/3nqPcfV

Internet service plans will soon come with ‘nutrition’ labels. It’s about time.

The FCC is moving forward with a plan to make companies’ internet plans easier to understand. https://wapo.st/3rkdeLT

U.S. charges North Korean man with cyberattacks on NASA

Rim Jong Hyok is accused of using ransomware to attack computer systems at American hospitals, generating money to pay for hacking NASA and U.S. military bases. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/25/north-korea-hacking-indictment/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

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