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.
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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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
