Customers will be given more control over when and where content is downloaded to reduce the risk of similar incidents in future. CrowdStrike has blamed a hole in its testing software for the release ...

On Friday, July 19, 2024, tens of thousands of workers in hospitals, airlines, banks and other industries around the world stared at the “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD) when trying to complete daily ...

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. has shared new details about the faulty update that it rolled out to its Falcon cybersecurity platform last week. In a preliminary incident ...

Security firm CrowdStrike revealed that a flaw in its testing software led to a faulty update, causing more than 8.5 million Windows systems to crash last week. In a blog post published today, the ...

Security firm CrowdStrike has posted a preliminary post-incident report about the botched update to its Falcon security software that caused as many as 8.5 million Windows PCs to crash over the ...

A buggy "security content configuration update" to CrowdStrike's Falcon sensor, which is aimed at gathering telemetry on novel threat techniques for Windows, has been confirmed as the root cause of ...

In an initial post-mortem, Austin-based security firm CrowdStrike said that an issue in its testing software led to the company pushing through a faulty update that took down more than 8.5 million ...

Under-fire cyber firm CrowdStrike has published an initial post incident review setting out more information on the update-gone-wrong that brought down millions of Microsoft devices on 19 July, ...

Many of the world’s airlines, banks, and retailers came to a grinding halt last Friday after a faulty update caused a global Microsoft IT outage. Now the cybersecurity firm behind the update, ...

Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies. The bug that impacted 8.5m PCs last week was, says, CrowdStrike due to an update it refers to as “Rapid Response Content”, which is ...

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In a statement responding to CRN’s interview with SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten, CrowdStrike says that its July 19 update did not bypass Microsoft’s ‘clear kernel review process.’ CrowdStrike said ...