Microsoft Announces Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit With CrowdStrike on September 10

Microsoft has just announced a Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit on September 10 with the presence of CrowdStrike, other key security partners, as well as government representatives.
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CrowdStrike Hits Back at Action1 Following $1 Billion Acquisition Rumors

CrowdStrike has denied having any significant acquisition talks with patch management firm Action1 following rumors of a $1 billion deal.
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Las Vegas didn’t fold during CrowdStrike outage

Sin City’s chief information officer says incident response playbooks and muscle memory limited the incident’s impact locally.

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Hackaday Links: August 11, 2024

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“Please say it wasn’t a regex, please say it wasn’t a regex; aww, crap, it was a regex!” That seems to be the conclusion now that Crowdstrike has released a …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 11, 2024

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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