Security News > 2024 > July > Microsoft releases tool to speed up recovery of systems borked by CrowdStrike update
2024-07-22 12:08
By now, most people are aware of – or have been personally affected by – the largest IT outage the world have ever witnessed, courtesy of a defective update for Crowdstrike Falcon Sensors that threw Windows hosts into a blue-screen-of-death (BSOD) loop. “We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines. While the percentage was small, the broad economic and societal impacts reflect the … More → The post Microsoft releases tool to speed up recovery of systems borked by CrowdStrike update appeared first on Help Net Security.
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