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  2. 2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Virus hoax - Wikipedia

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    A computer virus hoax is a message warning the recipients of a non-existent computer virus threat. The message is usually a chain e-mail that tells the recipients to forward it to everyone they know, but it can also be in the form of a pop-up window.

  4. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 December 2024. Computer program that modifies other programs to replicate itself and spread Hex dump of the Brain virus, generally regarded as the first computer virus for the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and compatibles A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by ...

  5. Ryuk (ransomware) - Wikipedia

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    The attack left hundreds of employees in limbo as the cities IT department worked on reinstating operations. Each time backups were reinstated the Ryuk virus would start the process of attacking the system all over again. The attack continued for four days before the IT team were able to contain the virus and reinstate the necessary backups ...

  6. Zero-day vulnerability - Wikipedia

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    Zero-day vulnerabilities are often classified as alive—meaning that there is no public knowledge of the vulnerability—and dead—the vulnerability has been disclosed, but not patched. If the software's maintainers are actively searching for vulnerabilities, it is a living vulnerability; such vulnerabilities in unmaintained software are ...

  7. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    This still works in the final release (version 1.01); however the screen mostly prints out random characters instead due to the remaining text messages being removed during development. [4] This is not a crash screen, however; upon crashing, Windows 1.0 would simply lock up or exit to DOS. This behavior is also present in Windows 2.0 and ...

  8. Mirai (malware) - Wikipedia

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    Mirai (from the Japanese word for "future", 未来) is malware that turns networked devices running Linux into remotely controlled bots that can be used as part of a botnet in large-scale network attacks.

  9. NFL television blackout policies - Wikipedia

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    The National Football League television blackout policies are the strictest among the four major professional sports leagues in North America.. The NFL maintained a blackout policy, from 1973 through 2014, that stated that a home game cannot be televised in the team's local market if 85 percent of the tickets are not sold out 72 hours before the starting time of the match.