Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
LONDON (Reuters) -A software bug in CrowdStrike's quality-control system caused the software update that crashed computers globally last week, the U.S. firm said on Wednesday, as losses mount ...
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.
CrowdStrike is blaming a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off last week's global tech outage that grounded ...
The frequency of updates "is probably the reason why (CrowdStrike) didn't test it as much," he said. It's unclear how that faulty code got into the update and why it wasn't detected before being ...
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.
When CrowdStrike released an update for its software, companies using Windows systems began experiencing errors, leading to the outage.
CrowdStrike says it’s responding to the matter by reworking how it prepares its software updates, including more stringent testing and staggering deployment to prevent a global systems collapse ...
As the world continues to recover from massive business and travel disruptions caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, malicious actors are trying to exploit the ...