10 Of The Biggest Cybersecurity Stories Of 2024
Search Security, Monday, December 23rd, 2024
Some of the biggest stories of the year include a massive IT outage, a record-setting ransom payment and devastating breaches at several U.S. telecommunications companies.
It was a busy year for cybersecurity news, with stories ranging from a global IT outage to a scathing government report against a tech giant.
Whereas most years include only one or two giant stories in the world of security -- 2021 with the Colonial Pipeline hack for example -- 2024 included several moments that reached outside the tech news bubble and into the wider world at large. CrowdStrike's faulty Falcon channel file update, for example, caused a global IT outage this summer that affected millions of Windows machines and disrupted a number of critical organizations, including airlines. And the effects of the ransomware attack against healthcare technology provider Change Healthcare are still felt to this day.