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Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said it deployed a "fix," and was working with those who were impacted after a global Microsoft outage disrupted internet connectivity around the world.
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.
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.
With security providers issuing multiple updates a day, in-house teams must choose between speed and risk when deciding whether to test the software or keep their digital defenses up to date.
CrowdStrike knows exactly how many computers received the bad update. Not all of them crashed, but this is a strict upper bound. Using "innumerable" in an encyclopedia article when there is a known upper bound and reasonable estimates on the lower side is simply a very poor choice.
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.
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 ...
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