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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft confirmed that 8.5 million devices were affected, less than 1% of all Windows machines, but the impact was widespread due to CrowdStrike's extensive use in critical infrastructure. On July ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. In its new post mortem report ...

The global IT outage on Friday resulted from a sensor configuration update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform that caused a Windows logic error. The global IT outage ...

Microsoft Windows powers more than a billion PCs and millions of servers worldwide, many of them playing key roles in facilities that serve customers directly. So, what happens when a trusted software ...

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 ...

TL;DR: An issue with Windows 11 24H2 is causing apps like Microsoft Office to hang or crash, linked to policy settings involving the CrowdStrike Falcon sensor. This problem affects businesses using ...

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 ...

The cybersecurity giant reported the recovery progress after the massive July 19 outage caused by its faulty update. CrowdStrike said 99 percent of Windows sensors for its Falcon platform are online, ...

While the company is still analyzing the error that caused many Windows systems to crash, it said a logic error in a channel file was the cause. The Saturday blog ...

Major airlines reported progress on recovery from the outage Saturday. Microsoft disclosed Saturday that 8.5 million Windows devices were impacted by CrowdStrike’s disastrous update, while major ...