A tragedy. According to CrowdStrike founder and CEO George Kurtz, the whole palaver concerns “a defect found in a Falcon content update for Windows hosts” - in other words, an update to their ...

The sensor expected 20 input fields, but the update provided 21 input fields. “In this instance, the mismatch resulted in an out-of-bounds memory read, causing a system crash,” CrowdStrike wrote.

Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. A week after a botched CrowdStrike update caused Windows machines around the world to crash, most have been restored. Here's what ...

The defective CrowdStrike software update led to impacts on real-world services including more than 1,000 flights reportedly canceled, health-care services such as surgeries curtailed and 911 ...

Microsoft disclosed Saturday that 8.5 million Windows devices were impacted by CrowdStrike’s disastrous update, while major airlines reported progress on recovery from the massive outage.

In this article, I aim to provide an update on how CrowdStrike has regained customer trust, the company's performance post-incident, and why I continue to see long-term value in the stock.

In a blog post, CrowdStrike said, the crash was triggered by a faulty configuration update that was designed to "target newly observed, malicious named pipes being used by common C2 frameworks in ...