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CrowdStrike accepted a ‘Most Epic Fail’ award at Def Con hacking conference
My little Pwnie Award.
CrowdStrike president Michael Sentonas personally accepted a “Most Epic Fail” award over the weekend at the annual Las Vegas Def Con hacking conference for the company’s software update that caused a global IT outage last month. CrowdStrike earned the award for releasing a software update that caused Windows machines around the world to fail in a way that prevented remote recovery. The crashes caused significant outages at airlines like Delta and prompted Microsoft to call for changes to Windows that could include denying kernel access to companies like CrowdStrike.
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