{"id":1430,"date":"2024-09-06T20:10:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/what-is-crowdstrike-the-cybersecurity-firm-behind-a-global-tech-outage\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T20:10:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:10:17","slug":"what-is-crowdstrike-the-cybersecurity-firm-behind-a-global-tech-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/what-is-crowdstrike-the-cybersecurity-firm-behind-a-global-tech-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"What is CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm behind a global tech outage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-0\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\">July 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Companies across several industries including airlines, banking and media were hit on Friday by a global tech outage tied to Microsoft&#8217;s <a data-testid=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/MSFT.O\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_ link__with-icon__3x3oD\" rel=\"noopener\">(MSFT.O)<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"presentation\" data-testid=\"NewTabSymbol\" class=\"link__new-tab-symbol__3T19s\"><path fill=\"#666\" d=\"M15 6c.6 0 1 .4 1 1s-.4 1-1 1H9c-.6 0-1 .4-1 1v14a1.1 1.1 0 0 0 .2.6c.1.2.4.4.8.4h14c.6 0 1-.4 1-1v-6c0-.6.4-1 1-1s1 .4 1 1v6a3 3 0 0 1-3 3H9a3 3 0 0 1-2.2-.9A3 3 0 0 1 6 23V9a3 3 0 0 1 3-3Zm10 0 .4.1.5.5.1.4v6c0 .6-.4 1-1 1s-1-.4-1-1V9.4l-5.3 5.3a1 1 0 0 1-.7.3 1 1 0 0 1-.7-.3 1 1 0 0 1 0-1.4L22.6 8H19c-.6 0-1-.4-1-1s.4-1 1-1Z\"\/><\/svg><span style=\"border:0;clip:rect(0 0 0 0);clip-path:inset(50%);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap\">, opens new tab<\/span><\/a> Azure cloud platform and a software issue at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike <a data-testid=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/CRWD.O\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_ link__with-icon__3x3oD\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRWD.O)<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"presentation\" data-testid=\"NewTabSymbol\" class=\"link__new-tab-symbol__3T19s\"><path fill=\"#666\" d=\"M15 6c.6 0 1 .4 1 1s-.4 1-1 1H9c-.6 0-1 .4-1 1v14a1.1 1.1 0 0 0 .2.6c.1.2.4.4.8.4h14c.6 0 1-.4 1-1v-6c0-.6.4-1 1-1s1 .4 1 1v6a3 3 0 0 1-3 3H9a3 3 0 0 1-2.2-.9A3 3 0 0 1 6 23V9a3 3 0 0 1 3-3Zm10 0 .4.1.5.5.1.4v6c0 .6-.4 1-1 1s-1-.4-1-1V9.4l-5.3 5.3a1 1 0 0 1-.7.3 1 1 0 0 1-.7-.3 1 1 0 0 1 0-1.4L22.6 8H19c-.6 0-1-.4-1-1s.4-1 1-1Z\"\/><\/svg><span style=\"border:0;clip:rect(0 0 0 0);clip-path:inset(50%);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap\">, opens new tab<\/span><\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>The issue impacted computers running the Windows operating system and CrowdStrike software. CrowdStrike said it was working with impacted customers and had deployed a fix for the issue, which stemmed from an update it issued for Windows users.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few key details about CrowdStrike:<\/p>\n<p>WHAT IS&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/what-is-crowdstrike-cybersecurity-firm-behind-global-tech-outage-2024-07-19\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Companies across several industries including airlines, banking and media were hit on Friday by a global tech outage tied to Microsoft&#8217;s (MSFT.O), opens new tab Azure cloud platform and a software issue at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike (CRWD.O), opens new tab. The issue impacted computers running the Windows operating system and CrowdStrike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}