CrowdStrike said the outage was not caused by a cyberattack, but was the result of a “defect” in a software update for its flagship security product, Falcon Sensor.

Falcon is one of its software products that organisations install on their computers to keep them safe from cyber attacks and malware. Falcon is what is known as “endpoint detection and response ...

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A worldwide tech outage affected everything from airports to banks to healthcare. But what actually happened? Let’s break it down.

It quickly became apparent that the issue was not down to Microsoft itself, but rather a faulty channel file rolled out to CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor product. Falcon is a solution designed to ...

How Falcon Sensor is putting Microsoft Windows systems into deathloop? Story by ET Now Digital ... An update to a product from infosec vendor CrowdStrike bricked computers running Windows.

On July 19, the fateful Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) Friday, about 8.5 million Windows systems around the world went into meltdown when an update for CrowdStrike's Falcon sensor product went very ...

Falcon, its flagship product, ... One of the modules in the Falcon platform is Falcon Sensor. This is a system that uses sensor data to track threats and vulnerabilities within a system.

The "Falcon Sensor" product designed to protect Windows from malicious attacks is used widely on Mac and Linux systems as well as within more bespoke software for things like cash machines.

Systems running Falcon sensor for Windows 7.11 and above that downloaded the updated configuration from 04:09 UTC to 05:27 UTC – were susceptible to a system crash.