The task force responsible for investigating the cause of the Aug. 14 blackout that crippled most of the Northeast corridor of the U.S. and parts of Canada concluded that a software failure at ...

We may never realize how much the world relies on software until it doesn’t work. That’s a lesson that went into overdrive during the CrowdStrike software debacle that created the “largest IT outage ...

Cybersecurity practitioners take a community-driven approach to solving problems. Security researchers share the vulnerabilities they find with the broader cybersecurity community, which allows ...

CDK Global touts itself as an all-in-one software-as-a-service solution that is “trusted by nearly 15,000 dealer locations.” One connection, over an always-on VPN to CDK’s data centers, gives a ...

Everyone knows now how a flawed update crashed 8.5 million computers running the Windows version of CrowdStrike’s Falcon cybersecurity software — but what does the failure of one company’s software ...