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A bug in the Content Validator – a software element CrowdStrike relies on for testing and validating Rapid Response Content updates for its Falcon Sensors – is (partly) why the faulty update wasn’t caught in time, the company said. In… Continue reading CrowdStrike blames buggy testing software for disastrous update
CrowdStrike has shared a preliminary incident review, explaining why the update that caused global chaos was not caught by testing.
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Delta has canceled more than 5,500 flights since the outage started early Friday morning.
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The malicious activity comes as CrowdStrike customers continue to recover from the July 18 outage.
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CrowdStrike tested a new technique to speed up the remediation of systems impacted by the recent bad update.
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Microsoft releases a recovery tool to fix CrowdStrike outages that crippled IT systems worldwide. The tool offers two… Continue reading Microsoft Releases Tool to Fix CrowdStrike-Caused Windows Chaos
This past weekend, Microsoft issued a one-two punch to its critics. First, it had the audacity to blame EU antitrust regulators for forcing it to change Windows in such a way that it weakened its security and was the real culprit in the CrowdStrike out… Continue reading Not a Great Look (Premium)
By now, most people are aware of – or have been personally affected by – the largest IT outage the world have ever witnessed, courtesy of a defective update for Crowdstrike Falcon Sensors that threw Windows hosts into a blue-screen-of-death… Continue reading Microsoft releases tool to speed up recovery of systems borked by CrowdStrike update
The major IT outage caused by CrowdStrike is being leveraged by threat actors for phishing, scams, and malware delivery.
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When monitors around the world display a “Blue Screen of Death” and you know it’s probably your fault, it’s got to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 21, 2024