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At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds

When, one year ago today, a buggy update to software sold by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike took down millions of computers around the world and sent them into a death spiral of repeated reboots, the global cost of all those crashed machines was equivalent to one of the worst cyberattacks in history. Some of the various estimates of the total damage worldwide have stretched well into the billions of dollars. Now a new study by a team of medical cybersecurity researchers has taken the first

Smart Cameras Power a Robot Umpire at MLB All-Stars for the First Time. Here's How the Challenges Went

If umpires draw your ire for bad calls, you may soon have a new target: Major League Baseball used its ABS, or Automated Ball-Strike System, to call pitches at the July 15 All-Star Game for the first time. If trials this season go well, it will probably be adopted for the 2026 regular season. But challenges against the camera had an unusually high rate of success. The ABS uses Hawk-Eye cameras, a technology increasingly common in games with high-speed objects. The cameras judge how a ball trave

Microsoft changes Windows in attempt to prevent next CrowdStrike-style catastrophe

In the summer of 2024, corporate anti-malware provider CrowdStrike pushed a broken update to millions of PCs and servers running some version of Microsoft's Windows software, taking down systems that both companies and consumers relied on for air travel, payments, emergency services, and their morning coffee. It was a huge outage, and it caused days and weeks of pain as the world's permanently beleaguered IT workers brought systems back online, in some cases touching each affected PC individuall

Microsoft is trying to get antivirus software away from the Windows kernel

In the summer of 2024, corporate anti-malware provider Crowdstrike pushed a broken update to millions of PCs and servers running some version of Microsoft's Windows software, taking down systems that both companies and consumers relied on for air travel, payments, emergency services, and their morning coffee. It was a huge outage, and it caused days and weeks of pain as the world's permanently beleaguered IT workers brought systems back online, in some cases touching each affected PC individuall

Nintendo is adding 'Super Mario Strikers' to its Switch Online GameCube library

Super Mario Strikers, the first game in the Mario Strikers series that was originally released for GameCube in 2005, will soon be available to play on Switch Online. Nintendo is adding it to its GameCube library for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members, though it will only be accessible from the Switch 2. If you'll recall, the company announced the addition of a GameCube library to its $50-a-year subscription service as a Switch 2-exclusive upgrade before the console even shipped. In

Password-spraying attacks target 80,000 Microsoft Entra ID accounts

Hackers have been using the TeamFiltration pentesting framework to target more than 80,000 Microsoft Entra ID accounts at hundreds of organizations worldwide. The campaign started last December and has successfully hijacked multiple accounts, say researchers at cybersecurity company Proofpoint, who attribute the activity to a threat actor called UNK_SneakyStrike. According to the researchers, the peak of the campaign happened on January 8, when it targeted 16,500 accounts in a single day. Such

‘Generative AI helps us bend time’: CrowdStrike, Nvidia embed real-time LLM defense, changing how enterprises secure AI

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Generative AI adoption has surged by 187% over the past two years. But at the same time, enterprise security investments focused specifically on AI risks have grown by only 43%, creating a significant gap in preparedness as AI attack surfaces rapidly expand. More than 70% of enterprises experienced at least one AI-related breach in the pa

MLB is testing robotic umpires in Spring Training, eyes 2026 implementation

Forward-looking: Major League Baseball is testing a computerized system for calling balls and strikes during spring training exhibition games. This Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which has been in development for four years in the minor leagues, could aid MLB home plate umpires as early as 2026. The ABS uses a network of cameras installed in stadiums to track each pitch and determine whether it crosses home plate within the strike zone. The current iteration uses Hawk-Eye pose-tracking cam