Everyone was minding their business on Friday when they discovered their flight was delayed, their bank wasn't working, or the hospital couldn't offer certain services. A Windows issue was affecting ...
A new recovery tool from Microsoft helps speed up the process to fix computers affected by the faulty CrowdStrike update. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty ...
But the cleanup effort continues. Microsoft estimates that around 8.5 million Windows systems were affected by the issue, which involved a buggy .sys file that was automatically pushed to Windows PCs ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. A week after a botched CrowdStrike update caused Windows machines ...
Oof, Windows is having a rough week. Only five days after a massive CrowdStrike update-slash-outage made headlines for crippling IT infrastructure all over the world (which, admittedly, is a ...
In the New York Times coverage of the CrowdStrike update bug that wreaked havoc starting last Friday, there’s a lovely deadpan line eleven paragraphs in: Apple and Linux machines were not affected by ...
After a system update pushed by CrowdStrike on Friday upended government services, emergency call centers, banks, airlines, hospitals, and other businesses, most systems are up and running as normal ...
Cutting corners: The global computer crash earlier this month, caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update, was a disaster for many. However, a hero emerged at Grant Thornton Australia: senior systems ...
As the IT world recovers from the massive outage triggered by CrowdStrike’s Falcon update, CISOs and CIOs would be wise to keep a running ledger of lessons learned. Here are some initial ...