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CrowdStrike CEO is also linked to this software update that brought down many parts of the internet in 2010
Microsoft’s CrowdSrtike outage brought the world to a standstill impacting nearly 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide. A faulty software update from CrowdStrike- the US-based cybersecurity company caused the disruption that crippled the day-to-day operations across sectors.
CrowdStrike acknowledged the severity of the situation. The company’s CEO George Kurtz has also issued an apology to its customers and partners.
Analyst recalls McAfee’s 2010 glitch when Kurtz was company’s CTO
Reportedly, this is not the first time Kurtz is at the centre of a global tech failure, as pointed out by tech industry analyst Anshel Sag. In April 2010, McAfee faced a similar tech disaster when the antivirus company inadvertently triggered a worldwide crash of Windows XP PCs. McAfee then released an update which deleted a key Windows file, causing millions of computers around the world to crash.
“For those who don’t remember, in 2010, McAfee had a colossal glitch with Windows XP that took down a good part of the internet. The man who was McAfee’s CTO at that time is now the CEO of CrowdStrike. The McAfee incident cost the company so much they ended up selling to Intel”, Kag wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
Kurtz was then McAfee’s chief technology officer.
As mentioned above, Kurtz has apologised for the outage stating “I want to sincerely apologise directly to all of you for todayʼs outage. All of CrowdStrike understands the gravity and impact of the situation. We quickly identified the issue and deployed a fix, allowing us to focus diligently on restoring customer systems as our highest priority.”
Kurtz has denied the outage as an act of cyberattack. He said “The outage was caused by a defect found in a Falcon content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This was not a cyberattack.”
CrowdStrike acknowledged the severity of the situation. The company’s CEO George Kurtz has also issued an apology to its customers and partners.
Analyst recalls McAfee’s 2010 glitch when Kurtz was company’s CTO
Reportedly, this is not the first time Kurtz is at the centre of a global tech failure, as pointed out by tech industry analyst Anshel Sag. In April 2010, McAfee faced a similar tech disaster when the antivirus company inadvertently triggered a worldwide crash of Windows XP PCs. McAfee then released an update which deleted a key Windows file, causing millions of computers around the world to crash.
“For those who don’t remember, in 2010, McAfee had a colossal glitch with Windows XP that took down a good part of the internet. The man who was McAfee’s CTO at that time is now the CEO of CrowdStrike. The McAfee incident cost the company so much they ended up selling to Intel”, Kag wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
Kurtz was then McAfee’s chief technology officer.
As mentioned above, Kurtz has apologised for the outage stating “I want to sincerely apologise directly to all of you for todayʼs outage. All of CrowdStrike understands the gravity and impact of the situation. We quickly identified the issue and deployed a fix, allowing us to focus diligently on restoring customer systems as our highest priority.”
Kurtz has denied the outage as an act of cyberattack. He said “The outage was caused by a defect found in a Falcon content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This was not a cyberattack.”
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