CNBC's live blog covering the IT outage impacting businesses worldwide is now closed. Businesses worldwide grappled with an ongoing major IT outage Friday, as financial services and doctors' offices ...

CrowdStrike sent the world into a technological spiral July 19 when a global outage affected Microsoft users everywhere. To make amends, CrowdStrike recently began issuing Uber Eats vouchers as an ...

But this was not a Microsoft issue. It was all to do with a U.S. cybersecurity firm called CrowdStrike which sent out a buggy software update that crashed Windows. Industries across the board were hit ...

CrowdStrike will face lawmakers for the first time this afternoon after its devastating global outage this summer bricked roughly 8.5 million Windows devices. Why it matters: As of now, this is the ...

The U.S. government continues to deal with the aftermath of the CrowdStrike IT failure Friday that created major issues for businesses around the world and impacted many federal institutions, ranging ...

On July 19, the same day a buggy CrowdStrike update caused widespread IT outages, the cybersecurity company's founder and CEO George Kurtz issued an apology — a mea culpa that was unique for its ...

Over the past weekend, millions of people around the world learned the name of the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike—not for preventing PC armageddon, but for causing it. CrowdStrike famously pushed a ...

And their specific issue was this — CrowdStrike software called Falcon, this is what they call an endpoint monitoring product. So it's effectively a piece of software designed to protect what they ...