Kurtz was McAfee's chief technology officer at the time. Months later, Intel acquired McAfee. And several months after that Kurtz left the company. He founded CrowdStrike in 2012 and has been its CEO ever since.
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Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 05:11:12 UTC Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π
On April 21, 2010, the antivirus company McAfee released an update to its software used by its corporate customers. The update deleted a key Windows file, causing millions of computers around the world to crash and repeatedly reboot. Much like the CrowdStrike mistake, the McAfee problem required a manual fix.