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Faulty CrowdStrike update causes major global IT outage, taking out banks, airlines and businesses globally


Businesses worldwide are reporting IT outages, including Windows "blue screen of death" errors on their computers, due to a CrowdStrike update.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. CrowdStrike competes with a number of vendors, including SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks but also Microsoft, Trellix, Trend Micro and Sophos, in the endpoint security market. J. Michael Cline, the co-founder of Fandango and multiple other startups over his multi-decade career, died after falling from a Manhattan hotel, New York’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information tells…

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