Microsoft Faces Wide-Ranging Antitrust Probe December 2, 2024 By Jody Godoy The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft, including of its software licensing and cloud...
Microsoft, Cyber Firms to Meet on Fixes After CrowdStrike Crash August 26, 2024 By Andrew Martin Microsoft Corp. is planning a meeting next month with cybersecurity companies that operate at the core of its Windows systems...
Microsoft and Delta Trade Blame Over Crowdstrike Outage August 7, 2024 By Mary Schlangenstein Microsoft Corp. said Delta Air Lines Inc. turned down repeated offers for assistance following last month’s catastrophic system outage, echoing...
Microsoft Azure Attack Shows Persistence of Blunt Hacking Tool August 2, 2024 By Evan Gorelick The recent outage on Microsoft Corp.’s cloud-computer platform demonstrated the persistence of an older, blunt-force style of cyberattack. It’s called...
Microsoft Reports Outage of Some Office and Cloud Services July 30, 2024 By Brody Ford and Charles Gorrivan Updated: July 30, 3 p.m. EDT Microsoft Corp. said it has started to resolve an outage affecting its Azure cloud...
Fortune 500’s Insured Losses for CrowdStrike Could Reach $1 Billion: Parametrix July 24, 2024 The total direct financial loss facing the US Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft, from the CrowdStrike outage on July 19...
Trigger Warning: Cyber Policy Wordings to Impact Coverage for Tech Outage July 22, 2024 By Chad Hemenway Industry stakeholders continue to try to get a grasp of the implications from last week’s massive technology outage affecting motley...
Without Backup Plans, Global IT Outages Will Happen Again July 22, 2024 By James Pearson Elements of Friday’s global IT outage, which grounded planes and hit services from banking to healthcare, have occurred before and...
Microsoft: About 8.5M of Its Devices Affected by CrowdStrike-Related Outage July 22, 2024 A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft...
Global IT Crash That Blocked 911 Calls and Grounded Planes Eases July 19, 2024 By Amy Thomson, Shona Ghosh and Vlad Savov In what will go down as the most spectacular IT failure the world has ever seen, a botched software update...