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 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 ...

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

Earlier this month, we highlighted a serious bug in Windows 11 update KB5055523 that was messing up Windows Hello logins for users, rendering both face unlocks and PIN codes unusable. As it turns out, ...

A comprehensive analysis of CrowdStrike’s most significant IT outage, caused by a minor update to their Falcon Sensor software, and how their unique AI-powered Threat Graph and cloud-native approach ...

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 ...

CrowdStrike has published a preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) into the global IT outage on July 19, which was caused by a bug in a content update for its Falcon platform. The cybersecurity vendor ...

In a letter Monday, the House Committee on Homeland Security demanded more transparency from CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz after major global outages were triggered by a “defect” in a recent update to ...

6500 Cancelled Flights Due To Faulty CrowdStrike Software Update. The entire IT world, along with critical sectors such as medical services, emergency response, and transportation, is still reeling ...

CrowdStrike will give customers more control over how they deploy content updates to the company's Falcon sensor endpoint security technology following the recent incident that saw a faulty update ...

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, ...