Ars Technica

CrowdStrike blames testing bugs for security update that took down 8.5M Windows PCs

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 ...
Ars Technica

97% of CrowdStrike systems are back online; Microsoft suggests Windows changes

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said Thursday that 97 percent of all Windows systems running its Falcon sensor software were back online, a week after an update-related outage to the corporate security ...
Business Wire

CrowdStrike Named a Frost Radar™ Leader in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) for Third Consecutive Year

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced it has been named a Leader in the 2024 Frost Radar™: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) for the third ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

CrowdStrike Windows Outage: What We Can Learn

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 Stanford Daily

CrowdStrike outage shuts down Windows operating systems at Stanford

A number of Windows systems at Stanford were affected by a global outage caused by a faulty update from CrowdStrike. The update, originally intended to enhance protection against threats, ransomware ...
CRN

Microsoft: Windows ‘Clearly’ Needs Better Resilience After CrowdStrike Outage

‘This incident shows clearly that Windows must prioritize change and innovation in the area of end-to-end resilience,’ a Microsoft executive says in a blog. Microsoft acknowledged that it must ...

CrowdStrike’s Role In the Microsoft IT Outage, Explained

Cybersecurity technology company CrowdStrike has apologized for the update that caused a major Microsoft IT outage.
CRN

CrowdStrike: Microsoft’s Windows Kernel Update Process ‘Was Followed’

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 ...
Android

Microsoft working to prevent a new Windows "CrowdStrike incident"

The July “CrowdStrike incident” may be one of the most catastrophic in Windows history. While the issue affected only organizations that rely on CrowdStrike security solutions, it brought operations ...
9to5Mac

Microsoft starts campaign to make Windows security more like Mac post-CrowdStrike

John Cable writes for Microsoft’s IT blog: This incident shows clearly that Windows must prioritize change and innovation in the area of end-to-end resilience. These improvements must go hand in hand ...
TechSpot

Microsoft is working on tighter security measures for Windows after the CrowdStrike disaster

A hot potato: While still working with CrowdStrike to bring millions of botched PCs back online, Microsoft is also thinking about the future of Windows. The platform must evolve and innovate, ...
Business Wire

New CrowdStrike Falcon Platform Innovations Unify End-to-End Security and IT Operations to Remove Complexity and Stop Breaches

AUSTIN, Texas & LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fal.Con 2024 -- CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced new innovations that unify security and IT to stop breaches on the CrowdStrike Falcon® ...