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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
