A faulty CrowdStrike update affected 1% of Windows products worldwide. It could take businesses weeks to recover from the outage.

Microsoft Windows, the leading PC platform for consumers and enterprises worldwide, is going through an unexpected outage, disrupting critical operations, including those of leading banks, airlines, ...

Last week's destructive CrowdStrike update brought down some 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft estimates. The update caused Windows systems to 'blue screen of death,' and led to one of the ...

Some IT workers say there's a simple way to avoid events like the CrowdStrike outage: Turn off auto-updates. But the reality is more complicated.

CISA is aware of the widespread outage affecting Microsoft Windows hosts due to an issue with a recent CrowdStrike update and is working closely with Crowdstrike and federal, state, local, tribal and ...

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. has revealed that it’s cooperating with ongoing U.S. federal investigations into its July 2024 outage that disrupted computer systems worldwide. The company said the Justice ...

Earlier this month, we highlighted a serious bug in Windows 11 update KB5055523 that was messing up Windows Hello logins for users, rendering both face unlocks and PIN codes unusable. As it turns out, ...

It’s been nearly a year since a faulty CrowdStrike update took down 8.5 million Windows-based machines around the world, and Microsoft wants to ensure such a problem never happens again. After holding ...

TL;DR: Apple leveraged the July 2024 CrowdStrike update failure, which caused 8.5 million Windows PCs to crash with Blue Screen of Death errors, to highlight Mac's superior security. By restricting ...