IT management

Organizations have been warned by CrowdStrike about the proliferation of a phony recovery manual that has been used to spread the novel Daolpu information-stealing malware.

Bolster's CheckPhish site detected more than 40 phishing and phony lookalike domains created in the first 24 hours following the CrowdStrike incident.

The automatic scripts have taken on 95% of the workload without hands on the keyboard going to each individual system, Fenix24 asserts.

This week's update includes comprehensive CRA Network coverage of the CrowdStrike IT outage.

The update from CrowdStrike to Microsoft users has resulted in a misconfigured update that causes users globally to hit a "blue screen of death." A fix has been deployed.

Microsoft is being criticized for sending spam- and phishing-like notification emails.

Approximately three-quarters of security professionals have admitted to using SaaS applications that had not been provided by their company’s IT team.