Too late now for canary updates, says pension fund suing CrowdStrike

August 1, 2024 at 02:46PM CrowdStrike faces a federal lawsuit for failing to implement a phased approach in updating its software, causing a global outage detrimental to investors. The pension fund alleges that false claims about the reliability of CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform led to financial losses. Despite these challenges, CrowdStrike is working to restore affected … Read more

Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems

March 8, 2024 at 12:04PM Russian cyberspies breached Microsoft executive email accounts, stealing source code and accessing internal systems. The intrusion by Kremlin-backed “Midnight Blizzard” was initially disclosed in January, with recent evidence showing further unauthorized access. Microsoft reassures no customer systems were compromised. The ongoing investigation reports a significant, sustained threat by the attackers. … Read more

U-Haul tells 67K customers that cyber-crooks drove away with their personal info

February 23, 2024 at 03:11PM U-Haul notifies 67,000 customers in the US and Canada of a security breach on December 5th. Intruders gained access to customer records with personal data, but no financial info was compromised. U-Haul enhanced security measures and offered affected customers a free one-year membership with Experian IdentityWorks Credit 3B. Identity-related attacks … Read more