Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

CEO Anand Eswaran Talks Investors, Innovation and Data Resilience LeadershipCEO Anand Eswaran explains how Veeam's $2 billion secondary offering strengthens its financial position as the data resilience vendor prepares for an initial public offering. He discusses the company’s commitment to innovation and strategic pacts with Splunk, CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks.

Thinks customers may have forgiven it after revenue hits a record CrowdStrike can't yet confidently predict the financial impact of the failed update to its Falcon software that crashed millions of computers around the world last July, but is confident its third quarter results show customers can't find a better security product.…

Regulator Tells Regulators to Enhance Third-Party Service SecurityBritish financial institutions must ensure by this spring that they could reasonably weather a third party tech outage on the scale of July's global meltdown of 8.5 million computers triggered by a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

Calls for improvements will soon turn into demands when new rules come into force The UK's finance regulator is urging all institutions under its remit to better prepare for IT meltdowns like that of CrowdStrike in July.…

Researchers track the healthcare sector as experiencing the biggest financial losses, with banking and transportation following close behind.

A faulty software update from cybersecurity vendor Crowdstrike crippled countless Microsoft Windows computers across the globe today, disrupting everything from airline travel and financial institutions to hospitals and businesses online. Crowdstrike said a fix has been deployed, but experts say the recovery from this outage could take some time, as Crowdstrike's solution needs to be applied manually on a per-machine basis.

On July 19, 2024, a large-scale outage emerged affecting Windows computers for many industries across the globe from financial institutions to hospitals to airlines. The source of this outage came from a single content update from CrowdStrike.