September 25, 2024 at 05:39PM CrowdStrike’s senior VP, Adam Meyers, testified about the faulty July 19 content update that crashed 8.5M Windows systems. He called it a “perfect storm” and apologized. The House Committee highlighted the incident’s global impact and criticized CrowdStrike’s oversight. Meyers outlined measures to prevent a recurrence, emphasizing enhanced testing processes and … Read more
March 20, 2024 at 05:51AM Researchers from the CISPA Helmholtz Center in Germany have identified a new DoS attack that affects UDP-based application protocols and internet-facing systems, causing indefinite communication between servers. This self-sustaining loop attack disrupts services and networks, impacting protocols like NTP and DNS. The technique may be used for amplifying DoS or … Read more
March 1, 2024 at 12:35AM NTT West president, Masaaki Moribayashi, announced his resignation effective end of March, following the leak of data of 9.28 million customers. He expressed the importance of social responsibility and took the blame for the incident at a widely reported press conference. The company apologized, revealed investigation results, and outlined measures … Read more