Microsoft has offered a summary of some new ideas for boosting Windows security and updates in the near and far term after July's faulty Crowdstrike software update.
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Crowdstrike senior VP Adam Meyers will testify before the US House of Representatives in September about July's faulty update that shut down millions of Windows PCs.
Microsoft has just announced it will be holding a special summit on September 10 to discuss endpoint security, and reps from CrowdStrike will be attending.
Crowdstrike President Michael Sentonas attended the annual DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas this past weekend, and personally accepted the event's Pwnie Award for Most Epic Fail of 2024.
CrowdStrike has posted its final report on what happened to cause July's update that ended up taking down millions of Windows PCs. It also posted plans to keep issues like this from happening again.
Microsoft now says that it sent offers to help Delta Airlines recover from its CrowdStrike issues, but those offers were ignored, including an email sent by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has now stated that it reached out to Delta Airlines to help them restore the PCs that were taken down by July's faulty update, but that the company did not respond.
Delta Airlines has reportedly hired the well-known attorney David Boies, and he may be planning to file lawsuits against both CrowdStrike and Microsoft for the huge outage caused by a faulty update.
Microsoft outlined several built-in security features in Windows and plans to collaborate with the anti-malware ecosystem for improved security. They're also developing safer rollout strategies.
Even though the massive CrowdStrike outage caused billions in damages, insurance companies will cover only a fraction of the losses. A third of the total cost comes from the Fortune 500 businesses.
Nearly a week after a failed update from CrowdStrike shut down over 8 million Windows PCs worldwide, the company's CEO now says that over 97 percent of Windows sensors are back online.
In a new blog post, Microsoft says that last week's Windows issues caused by the fault CrowdStrike update shows "Windows must prioritize change and innovation" with "end-to-end resilience."
A number of people who use CrowdStrike and got hit with last week's faulty update that caused outages in Windows PCs have been sent $10 Uber Eats digital gift cards as an "apology".
Last week, a botched Crowdstrike update led to a global outage where many Windows PCs running the software were BSODing. Now that the mayhem is clearing up, Crowdstrike has explained what went wrong.
Cybercriminals are exploiting the recent faulty CrowdStrike update outage using a fake Microsoft recovery manual Word document to deliver a stealer malware which is now tracked as Daolpu.
Delta Airlines is still struggling to get back up to speed thanks to the failed CrowdStrike update on Friday. The major air carrier has already canceled 550 flights today while other airlines recover.
CrowdStrike and Microsoft have provided recovery tools, but the process is time-consuming. CrowdStrike is now working on a faster remediation technique that will be released to its customers.
After its buggy update that led to a global Windows meltdown and BSOD mayhem, CrowdStrike has been proactively trying to help. Now the firm has published new detailed guidance on it.
Shortly after releasing a tool for fixing Windows PCs knocked down by the CrowdStrike outage, Microsoft pushed a newer version with two new recovery options and an ADK detection fix.
While CrowdStrike and Microsoft provided fixes, cybercriminals exploited the situation by spreading malware disguised as a hotfix and launching phishing campaigns targeting CrowdStrike customers.
The CrowdStrike Windows outage that hit the world this week stems back to an EU-Microsoft deal from 2009 that meant Microsoft had to give antivirus vendors the same Windows API access it had.
Microsoft released a new tool to help IT admins fix over 8 millions of Windows PCs hit by the recent CrowdStrike outage. With the help of a USB drive, it can automate and speed up the recovery.
Microsoft confirmed that 8.5 million devices were affected, less than 1% of all Windows machines, but the impact was widespread due to CrowdStrike's extensive use in critical infrastructure.
Microsoft has published detailed step-by-step guides that should help users and IT admins get their computers back to work after the CrowdStrike Falcon agent took down thousands of PCs worldwide.
CrowdStrike recently caused a widespread Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue on Windows PCs, disrupting various sectors. However, this was not an isolated incident, CrowdStrike affected Linux PCs also.
The mass outage of Windows systems thanks to a faulty security update from CrowdStrike continues to affect many critical businesses worldwide, even as a fix has been found and is rolling out.
We now have the official fix from CrowdStrike on how to deal with the Falcon Sensor for Windows update error which caused a critical issue that is currently affecting tons of PCs worldwide.
Earlier today, Crowdstrike pushed a buggy Falcon Sensor update leading to BSODs across the world's computers running Windows. Microsoft has pointed to its guidance on how to restore affected systems.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz stated in his first TV interview since this morning's worldwide Windows-based software outage that it "could be some time" before all the systems affected by it recover.
Windows systems across the world are not having a good time right now. A botched security update from CrowdStrike is taking down Windows PCs, causing blue screens of death, crashes, and more.
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CrowdStrike has shared details on Spyboy Terminator EDR killer. It is one of the EDRs, alongside the likes of Microsoft Defender, Avast, and more, that can be disabled by the evasion tool.
According to a CrowdStrike report, Linux malware and malware samples have increased by a lot in 2021 as compared to a year prior. One of the malware types has seen submissions increase by tenfold.
Yet another organized botnet, this time based on the Kelihos.B malware, has been shut down. The botnet reportedly had a network that spanned over 110,000 different PCs.
The newly launched software security firm CrowdStrike has said that Windows Phone device cannot be affected by the exploit it discovered on Android-based smartphones last week.
A newly revealed software security firm claims it has found a bug in Android-based smartphones that could leave them open to attack and have them controlled by outside users.
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