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On 19 July at 04:09 UTC, CrowdStrike distributed a faulty configuration update for its Falcon sensor software running on Windows PCs and servers. A modification to a configuration file which was responsible for screening named pipes, Channel File 291, caused an out-of-bounds memory read [14] in the Windows sensor client that resulted in an invalid page fault.
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike is “actively working” to fix a “defect” in an update for Microsoft Windows users which sparked a global IT outage, the company’s chief executive has said.
The chief executive of CrowdStrike, the firm at the centre of the global IT outage, has said he is “deeply sorry” for the incident, but warned it would take “some time” for systems to be ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A senior executive at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike apologized at an appearance before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday for a faulty software update ...
The trouble with the update issued by CrowdStrike and affecting computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system was not a hacking incident or cyberattack, according to CrowdStrike, which apologized and said a fix was on the way. But it wasn't an easy fix, requiring “boots on the ground” to remediate, said Gartner analyst Eric Grenier.
The CrowdStrike software did not provide a way for subscribers to delay the installation of its content files. [19] Computers running macOS and Linux were unaffected, as the problematic content file was only for Windows, [ 20 ] but similar problems had affected Linux distributions of CrowdStrike software in April 2024 .
An Australian firm overcame the restart mess: How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash, from El Reg. MinorProphet 12:14, 25 July 2024 (UTC) CrowdStrike has issued a "Preliminary Post Incident Review". According to this report, it was a bit more complicated (and, in my eyes, looking even worse for the company ...
CrowdStrike provides antivirus software to Microsoft for its Windows devices. "The underlying cause has been fixed, however, residual impact is continuing to affect some Microsoft 365 apps and ...