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, ...

The majority of CrowdStrike Falcon sensors affected by a botched rapid response update were back up and running prior to the weekend of 27 and 28 July, as efforts to remediate the 19 July incident ...

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 ...

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 ...

A buggy "security content configuration update" to CrowdStrike's Falcon sensor, which is aimed at gathering telemetry on novel threat techniques for Windows, has been confirmed as the root cause of ...

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said that over 97% of Windows sensors are back online after an update from the cybersecurity firm caused one of the world's biggest IT outages. Last week, CrowdStrike ...

Customers will be given more control over when and where content is downloaded to reduce the risk of similar incidents in future. CrowdStrike has blamed a hole in its testing software for the release ...

CrowdStrike released a Preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) on the faulty Falcon update explaining that a bug allowed bad data to pass its Content Validator and cause millions of Windows systems to ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. A week after a botched CrowdStrike update caused Windows machines ...