CrowdStrike said the event that triggered the outage July 19 was a content configuration update for "the Windows sensor to gather telemetry on possible novel threat techniques." ...

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. has shared new details ... That error, in turn, crashed the Windows devices on which the ... “Systems in scope include Windows hosts running sensor version 7.11 and ...

CrowdStrike has published a post incident review (PIR) of the buggy update it published that took down 8.5 million Windows machines last week. The detailed post blames a bug in test software for ...

Any company using CrowdStrike's services with Windows computers connected to the internet with sensor version 7.11 or newer at the time the update was pushed was impacted, CrowdStrike confirmed in ...

On a Windows computer with Falcon Sensor installed, CrowdStrike uses so-called "Channel Files" to store information about the signals that malware might be installed or active on the computer. These ...

"CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor," the cybersecurity company wrote in an alert confirming the outage at 1:30 a.m. ET on Friday.

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 ...

The test had been designed to detect errors in a type of content that CrowdStrike issues on a rapid, as-needed basis in response to novel cybersecurity threats. CrowdStrike has a regular track and ...

The hole caused CrowdStrike’s Content Validator tool to miss a flaw in an update for the security vendor’s Falcon Sensor endpoint protection technology, causing Windows machines that received ...

The defective CrowdStrike Falcon update led to the meltdown of potentially millions of Microsoft Windows systems worldwide on Friday and hobbled much of what the modern world depends on, from air ...

CrowdStrike said in an emailed statement that it “is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts.” It said: “This is not a ...