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 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 ...

What might be considered the largest IT outage in history was triggered by a botched software update from security vendor CrowdStrike, affecting millions of Windows systems around the world. Insurers ...

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, ...

This story was updated July 26, 2024: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said 97% of Windows sensors are back online after a highly publicized global IT outage. The CEO announced the update via a LinkedIn ...

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 ...

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company at the center of massive global IT outages, blamed the meltdown on a bug in quality control software that allowed bad data in an update to be sent to millions of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An anonymous security researcher who uses the "Nightmare Eclipse" handle released a CrowdStrike Falcon zero-day exploit named "FalconFlank" that lets attackers escalate privileges on up-to-date ...