The chaos caused a boom in malware, spoofed domains, and bad crypto wallets, says a new report from McAfee. CrowdStrike’s outage earlier this month bricked 8.5 million PCs worldwide, grounding ...

I didn't bring up the McAfee situation, however, because of how similar it sounds to CrowdStrike's. Instead, I simply want to point who was McAfee's CTO at that time: George Kurtz, the man who's ...

McAfee notes that “unless you operate a business that uses CrowdStrike, you are likely not affected,” so it’s safe to say most any communication you receive regarding the outage ...

A faulty update from CrowdStrike caused a global tech outage on Friday. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has been down this road before. As CTO of McAfee in 2010, Kurtz was at the center of another ...

George Kurtz, the CEO of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, is under the spotlight for a massive tech failure. Last Friday, a faulty update from CrowdStrike caused a worldwide tech outage that ...

Just as improved technology led to a more efficient rollout of CrowdStrike's faulty update than McAfee's was, a boost from machine learning could make the next incident even worse.

CrowdStrike is a cloud-based EDR tool that protects endpoints from critical vulnerabilities such as malware, phishing, and ransomware and DDoS attacks. SEE: McAfee vs Kaspersky: ...

Prior to founding CrowdStrike, Kurtz held various roles at McAfee, another major cybersecurity company, including worldwide chief technology officer, general manager and executive vice president ...

He’s also cited, as an inspiration for launching CrowdStrike, the act of watching a passenger on a flight wait for 15 minutes for McAfee software to load on their laptop.

CrowdStrike CEO Was Working For McAfee In 2010 When There Was A Global Tech Outage Too. George Kurtz, the CEO of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, is under the spotlight for a massive tech failure.

George Kurtz, the CEO of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, is under the spotlight for a massive tech failure. Last Friday, a faulty update from CrowdStrike caused a worldwide tech outage that ...