If you've seen memes about a bright blue loading screen ... many Windows operators reported that a CrowdStrike update caused their systems to start endlessly rebooting. Faced with a glowing ...

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 ...

As a result, a high proportion of CrowdStrike customers were likely to be affected by the update, which the company has said contained an unspecified “defect” for the Windows version of Falcon.

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 ...

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 ...

Last Friday's faulty update from the security firm CrowdStrike managed to shut down over 8 million Windows PCs. That has caused IT admins a massive headache as they have been trying to fix the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Security experts said CrowdStrike's routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients' computer systems to crash globally on Friday ...

SEE ALSO: Microsoft releases easier CrowdStrike fix The faulty CrowdStrike update was devastating for IT systems around the globe as it caused a system crash on a multitude of Windows PCs.