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2. 2024 CrowdStrike incident - Wikipedia

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   On 19 July 2024, American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike distributed a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor security software that caused widespread problems with Microsoft Windows computers running the software. As a result, roughly 8.5 million systems crashed and were unable to properly restart [ 1 ] in what has been called the largest outage in the history of information technology [ 2 ...

3. Yahoo data breaches - Wikipedia

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   The 2013 data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 and affected all three billion user accounts. The 2014 breach affected over 500 million user accounts. Both breaches are considered the largest ever discovered and included names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and security questions—both encrypted and unencrypted.

4. Browser hijacking - Wikipedia

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   Some antivirus software identifies browser hijacking software as malicious software and can remove it. Some spyware scanning programs have a browser restore function to set the user's browser settings back to normal or alert them when their browser page has been changed.

5. Unmasking the threat: A deep dive into what is computer ... - AOL

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   Malware, also known as malicious software, refers to any program or code designed to damage, disable, and/or infiltrate a computer or network without consent. It takes on various forms including ...

6. Why do I have so many pop up ads? Your computer could ... - AOL

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   The worst-case scenario is identity theft. 2. Pop-up ads constantly warning you that “your system is infected with a virus or malware”—and that their service will save you. A pop-up ad like ...

7. Scareware - Wikipedia

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   Scareware is part of a class of malicious software that includes rogue security software, ransomware and other scam software that tricks users into believing their computer is infected with a virus, then suggests that they download and pay for fake antivirus software to remove it. [2] Usually the virus is fictional and the software is non ...