The Austin cybersecurity company also outlined measures it would take to prevent the problem from recurring and said it would provide more information later.
Crowdstrike is blaming a bug in its test software for not properly validating the content update that sent bad data to millions of customer computers, setting off last week's global tech outage that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers.
CrowdStrike CEO called to testify to Congress in wake of global IT outage his company caused The update comes as members of Congress are asking CrowdStrike to schedule testimony from CEO George Kurtz on what happened. The event is raising concerns about the increasingly centralized systems relied on by government and business around the world.
UTSA professor says global IT outage ‘is not the last one’; urges policymakers to act Once its investigation is complete, CrowdStrike said that it will publicly release its full analysis of the meltdown. The outage caused days of widespread technological havoc, highlighted how much of the world depends on a few key providers of computing services and drawn the attention of regulators who want more details on what went wrong. Shares in CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. were trading lower Wednesday.
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