CrowdStrike Dismisses Claims of Exploitability in Falcon Sensor Bug

CrowdStrike dismissed claims that the Falcon EDR sensor bug could be exploited for privilege escalation or remote code execution.
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Easterly: Potential Chinese cyberattack could unfold like CrowdStrike error

CISA director calls CrowdStrike-linked outage a “dress rehearsal” for what China may have planned for U.S. critical infrastructure.

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CrowdStrike engages external experts, details causes of massive outage

CrowdStrike has published a technical root cause analysis of what went wrong when a content update pushed to its Falcon sensors borked over 8.5 million Windows machines around the world on July 19, and has confirmed that it has hired two unnamed third-… Continue reading CrowdStrike engages external experts, details causes of massive outage

Microsoft Hits Back at Delta After the Airline Said Last Month’s Tech Outage Cost It $500 Million

Microsoft is trying to determine “why other airlines were able to fully restore business operations so much faster than Delta.”
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CrowdStrike Releases Root Cause Analysis of Falcon Sensor BSOD Crash

CrowdStrike says the Falcon sensor crash that blue-screened Windows machines was caused by a “confluence” of vulnerabilities and testing gaps.
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CrowdStrike and Delta Fight Over Who’s to Blame for the Airline Canceling Thousands of Flights

CrowdStrike and Delta are fighting over who is to blame for the airline canceling thousands of flights following the massive outage.
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CrowdStrike points finger back at Delta after airline threatened to sue over outages

Delta will have to account for its own shortcomings if it follows through on a threat based on a “misleading narrative,” CrowdStrike said.

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Lord of The Rings: Microsoft’s Resiliency Advice Post-CrowdStrike

This Week in IT, I look at Microsoft’s recently published security best practice advice following the CrowdStrike outage and how managed detection and response solutions fit into it.
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Microsoft is Working with the Security Industry to Prevent Another CrowdStrike Outage

Microsoft published a technical deep dive into what went wrong with the CrowdStrike outage and how it will prevent issues like this in the future.
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