CrowdStrike is working with customers to resolve a logic problem its software triggered.
After a tumultuous weekend, the firm says a significant number of impacted systems have been restored.CrowdStrike rolled out a Falcon sensor configuration update to Windows systems
Initially, many believed that the problem behind the crashes was down to CrowdStrike’s update to a kernel driver, but the firm has since said that this isn’t the case. Instead, the update triggered a logic error which resulted in an operating system crash. While this has been on of the biggest mistakes we’ve seen in recent memory, CrowdStrike is doing its utmost to address the problem it caused.
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