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On 19 July at 04:09 UTC, CrowdStrike distributed a faulty configuration update for its Falcon sensor software running on Windows PCs and servers. A modification to a configuration file which was responsible for screening named pipes, Channel File 291, caused an out-of-bounds memory read [14] in the Windows sensor client that resulted in an invalid page fault.
A firewall problem caused Tuesday's statewide outage of the 911 emergency system, public safety officials revealed Wednesday.. The firewall is a safety feature that is intended to prevent ...
AT&T long-distance network crash (January 15, 1990), in which the failure of one switching system would cause a message to be sent to nearby switching units to tell them that there was a problem. Unfortunately, the arrival of that message would cause those other systems to fail too – resulting in a cascading failure that rapidly spread across ...
Data Breach Security Incidents & Lessons Learned (Plus 5 Tips for Preventing Them) A data breach is an event that exposes confidential, private, or sensitive information to unauthorized individuals.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) advised that affected devices be rebuilt from trusted sources, and that all credentials exposed to SolarWinds software should be considered compromised and should therefore be reset. [134] Anti-malware companies additionally advised searching log files for specific indicators of ...
Ntpd-rs with Network Time Security for NTP (NTS) support. After the first major incidents, it became clear that apart from stating a server's access policy, a technical means of enforcing a policy was needed. One such mechanism was provided by extending semantics of a Reference Identifier field in an NTP packet when a Stratum field is 0.
An incident response plan (IRP) is a group of policies that dictate an organizations reaction to a cyber attack. Once an security breach has been identified, for example by network intrusion detection system (NIDS) or host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) (if configured to do so), the plan is initiated. [3]
On January 11, 2023, U.S. flights were grounded or delayed as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) attempted to fix a system outage. [1] [2] FAA paused all flight departures between 7:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. ET. [2]