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Who’s at Fault in the CrowdStrike-Delta Summer Meltdown?

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Delta Airlines is suing CrowdStrike, which was behind the glitchy software update that sparked a global outage of critical flight systems.

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A Cyberattack Rattled US Car Dealerships. Which Industry is Next?

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A single point of software failure can turn entire industries into teetering Jenga towers. Next time could be a lot worse.

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Patent Drop

Microsoft Patent Tracks Down Software Vulnerabilities, Cyberattacks

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In the face of a wide-spread outage, such as what occurred with Crowdstrike last Friday, there’s only so much the company can do, one expert said.

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Y24K: Three Days After the Biggest IT Outage in History

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A single file in a defective software update caused a global IT outage that disrupted airports, banks, hotels, trains, hospitals, and more.

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