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CrowdStrike Overhauls Testing and Rollout Procedures to Avoid System Crashes

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CrowdStrike Overhauls Testing and Rollout Procedures to Avoid System Crashes 2024-09-24 at 23:16 By Ryan Naraine CrowdStrike says it has revamped several testing, validation, and update rollout processes to prevent a repeat of the July BSOD incident. The post CrowdStrike Overhauls Testing and Rollout Procedures to Avoid System Crashes appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article […]

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Organizations are changing cybersecurity providers in wake of Crowdstrike outage

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Organizations are changing cybersecurity providers in wake of Crowdstrike outage 2024-09-23 at 15:46 By Zeljka Zorz More often than not, a cyber attack or a cyber incident that results in business disruption will spur organizations to make changes to improve their cybersecurity and cyber resilience – and sometimes that means changing cybersecurity providers. The recent

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Post-CrowdStrike Fallout: Microsoft Redesigning EDR Vendor Access to Windows Kernel

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Post-CrowdStrike Fallout: Microsoft Redesigning EDR Vendor Access to Windows Kernel 2024-09-13 at 21:45 By Ryan Naraine Microsoft is revamping how anti-malware tools interact with the Windows kernel to avoid another CrowdStrike faulty update catastrophe. The post Post-CrowdStrike Fallout: Microsoft Redesigning EDR Vendor Access to Windows Kernel appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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CrowdStrike Estimates the Tech Meltdown Caused by Its Bungling Left a $60 Million Dent in Its Sales

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CrowdStrike Estimates the Tech Meltdown Caused by Its Bungling Left a $60 Million Dent in Its Sales 2024-08-29 at 06:01 By Associated Press Massive outage spooked customers that had been expected to close deals totaling $60 million during the final few weeks of CrowdStrike’s fiscal Q2. The post CrowdStrike Estimates the Tech Meltdown Caused by

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Microsoft Convenes Endpoint Security Firms Following CrowdStrike Incident

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Microsoft Convenes Endpoint Security Firms Following CrowdStrike Incident 2024-08-27 at 16:31 By Eduard Kovacs Microsoft has called together cybersecurity firms and government representatives for its Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit. The post Microsoft Convenes Endpoint Security Firms Following CrowdStrike Incident appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original

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Degraded Performance Issue Sparks Concern Among CrowdStrike Customers

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Degraded Performance Issue Sparks Concern Among CrowdStrike Customers 2024-08-23 at 15:01 By Eduard Kovacs CrowdStrike has addressed a cloud service issue causing degraded performance and boot times for some of its customers. The post Degraded Performance Issue Sparks Concern Among CrowdStrike Customers appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed

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CrowdStrike Hits Back at Action1 Following $1 Billion Acquisition Rumors

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CrowdStrike Hits Back at Action1 Following $1 Billion Acquisition Rumors 2024-08-22 at 15:46 By Eduard Kovacs CrowdStrike has denied having any significant acquisition talks with patch management firm Action1 following rumors of a $1 billion deal. The post CrowdStrike Hits Back at Action1 Following $1 Billion Acquisition Rumors appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is

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CrowdStrike Dismisses Claims of Exploitability in Falcon Sensor Bug

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CrowdStrike Dismisses Claims of Exploitability in Falcon Sensor Bug 2024-08-08 at 20:46 By Ryan Naraine CrowdStrike dismissed claims that the Falcon EDR sensor bug could be exploited for privilege escalation or remote code execution. The post CrowdStrike Dismisses Claims of Exploitability in Falcon Sensor Bug appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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CrowdStrike engages external experts, details causes of massive outage

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CrowdStrike engages external experts, details causes of massive outage 2024-08-07 at 16:01 By Zeljka Zorz CrowdStrike has published a technical root cause analysis of what went wrong when a content update pushed to its Falcon sensors borked over 8.5 million Windows machines around the world on July 19, and has confirmed that it has hired

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Microsoft Hits Back at Delta After the Airline Said Last Month’s Tech Outage Cost It $500 Million

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Microsoft Hits Back at Delta After the Airline Said Last Month’s Tech Outage Cost It $500 Million 2024-08-07 at 05:16 By Associated Press Microsoft is trying to determine “why other airlines were able to fully restore business operations so much faster than Delta.” The post Microsoft Hits Back at Delta After the Airline Said Last

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CrowdStrike Releases Root Cause Analysis of Falcon Sensor BSOD Crash

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CrowdStrike Releases Root Cause Analysis of Falcon Sensor BSOD Crash 2024-08-06 at 21:16 By Ryan Naraine CrowdStrike says the Falcon sensor crash that blue-screened Windows machines was caused by a “confluence” of vulnerabilities and testing gaps. The post CrowdStrike Releases Root Cause Analysis of Falcon Sensor BSOD Crash appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is

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CrowdStrike and Delta Fight Over Who’s to Blame for the Airline Canceling Thousands of Flights

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CrowdStrike and Delta Fight Over Who’s to Blame for the Airline Canceling Thousands of Flights 2024-08-06 at 13:16 By Associated Press CrowdStrike and Delta are fighting over who is to blame for the airline canceling thousands of flights following the massive outage. The post CrowdStrike and Delta Fight Over Who’s to Blame for the Airline

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Alex Stamos Named CISO at SentinelOne

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Alex Stamos Named CISO at SentinelOne 2024-08-01 at 19:16 By Ryan Naraine Longtime security executive Alex Stamos tapped by SentinelOne to manage its security engineering and operations teams. The post Alex Stamos Named CISO at SentinelOne appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original Source React to this

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CrowdStrike Faces Lawsuits From Customers, Investors

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CrowdStrike Faces Lawsuits From Customers, Investors 2024-07-31 at 18:01 By Eduard Kovacs CrowdStrike is facing lawsuits from investors and customers following the incident that caused massive global outages. The post CrowdStrike Faces Lawsuits From Customers, Investors appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original Source React to this

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Some good may come out of the CrowdStrike outage

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Some good may come out of the CrowdStrike outage 2024-07-29 at 19:31 By Zeljka Zorz Estimated financial losses due to the recent massive IT outage triggered by the faulty CrowdStrike update are counted in billions, but the unfortunate incident is having several positive effects, as well. Some silver linings As CrowdStrike was forced to explain,

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97% of Devices Disrupted by CrowdStrike Restored as Insurer Estimates Billions in Losses

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97% of Devices Disrupted by CrowdStrike Restored as Insurer Estimates Billions in Losses 2024-07-26 at 11:17 By Eduard Kovacs CrowdStrike says 97% of Windows systems impacted by its bad update are back online, just as an insurer predicts billions in losses for major companies. The post 97% of Devices Disrupted by CrowdStrike Restored as Insurer

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CrowdStrike blames buggy testing software for disastrous update

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CrowdStrike blames buggy testing software for disastrous update 2024-07-24 at 15:32 By Zeljka Zorz A bug in the Content Validator – a software element CrowdStrike relies on for testing and validating Rapid Response Content updates for its Falcon Sensors – is (partly) why the faulty update wasn’t caught in time, the company said. In a

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CrowdStrike Explains Why Bad Update Was Not Properly Tested

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CrowdStrike Explains Why Bad Update Was Not Properly Tested 2024-07-24 at 14:16 By Eduard Kovacs CrowdStrike has shared a preliminary incident review, explaining why the update that caused global chaos was not caught by testing. The post CrowdStrike Explains Why Bad Update Was Not Properly Tested appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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Most Airlines Except One Are Recovering From the CrowdStrike Tech Outage. The Feds Have Noticed

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Most Airlines Except One Are Recovering From the CrowdStrike Tech Outage. The Feds Have Noticed 2024-07-24 at 05:16 By Associated Press Delta has canceled more than 5,500 flights since the outage started early Friday morning. The post Most Airlines Except One Are Recovering From the CrowdStrike Tech Outage. The Feds Have Noticed appeared first on

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CrowdStrike Speeding Up Remediation of Systems Hit by Blue Screen of Death

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CrowdStrike Speeding Up Remediation of Systems Hit by Blue Screen of Death 2024-07-23 at 15:16 By Eduard Kovacs CrowdStrike tested a new technique to speed up the remediation of systems impacted by the recent bad update. The post CrowdStrike Speeding Up Remediation of Systems Hit by Blue Screen of Death appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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