George Kurtz, president CEO and Co-Founder at CrowdStrike speaks at the WSJTECH live conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S. October 21, 2019. Early on Friday, the company issued a defective update to its Falcon vulnerability-protection software that caused PCs, computer servers in data centers and display screens to crash, resulting in grounded flights and canceled medical appointments. The incident ensnared 8.5 million Windows devices, less than 1% of the global total, Microsoft said. CrowdStrike sha ...

Piper Sandler continues to maintain its "neutral" rating for CRWD stock. That's worse than the analysts' consensus moderate buy rating based on 40 opinions. CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) stock just hit by a price target cut from Piper Sandler analysts following the outage is caused over the weekend. What's Behind the CRWD Stock Price Target Drop? "Clearly it will be difficult for investors to quantify the impact of last week's faulty update given the sheer magnitude and disruption created by the incident. We we ...

The mistake in the Falcon update led to a global IT outage, impacting banks, airports, hospitals, retailers, various businesses and government agencies. This causes significant disruption and economic losses worldwide. What Caused the Global IT Outage? Initially, Microsoft was suspected to be at fault since the outage only affected Windows systems. However, Microsoft clarified that it was working with CrowdStrike to resolve the problem. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz acknowledged the issue, too, and confirmed ...

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CrowdStrike (CRWD) shares are falling more than 4% less than an hour before the opening bell Monday, extending Friday's 11% declines, after an update to the cybersecurity firm's software caused an outage in Microsoft's (MSFT) cloud services and disrupted businesses worldwide. CrowdStrike shares are falling more than 4% in premarket trading, extending Friday's large declines, after the cybersecurity firm's software update caused a global outage in Microsoft's cloud services. Meanwhile, shares of CrowdStrike' ...

Following a massive outage that brought many industries and organizations, including banks, airlines, train operators, and supermarkets, around the world to a halt, the price of CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) stock has suffered a major dip, and analysts' new price targets reflect the recent events. As it happens, an outage seems to be the result of a malfunction within Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) operating systems or due to a software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, which caused Windows devices used ...

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CrowdStrike Stock Drops Again. Why Airlines, Others Face More Tech Outage Pain. ...

Kacper Pempel | REUTERS The issue traced back to a software update by Texas-based cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, which generates more than half its revenue from the United States. The company's tech is used by many of the world's largest banks, health-care and energy companies. In this article BEIJING — While businesses in the U.S. and Europe woke up Friday to a global IT outage that disrupted airports and hotels, China went into its weekend largely unaffected. A hashtag "Thank you Microsoft, [I can] ta ...