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Microsoft has confirmed that July's security updates break remote desktop connections in organizations where Windows servers are configured to use the legacy RPC over HTTP protocol in the Remote Desktop Gateway. "Windows Servers might affect Remote Desktop Connectivity across an organization if legacy protocol is used in Remote Desktop Gateway. Resulting from this, remote desktop connections might be interrupted," Microsoft explained.
The cost of CrowdStrike's apocalyptic Falcon update that brought down millions of Windows computers last week may be in the billions of dollars, and insurance isn't covering most of that. Parametrix says insurance might only pay out about $540 million to $1.1 billion of that hit for the Fortune 500, or between 10 and 20 percent.
Microsoft has released the optional KB5040527 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 23H2 and 22H2, which includes fixes for Windows Backup and upgrade failures. The July 2024 non-security preview update fixes an issue that sometimes caused Windows backups to fail on devices with an Extensible Firmware Interface system partition.
Not now, Microsoft Some Windows devices are presenting users with a BitLocker recovery screen upon reboot following the installation of July's Patch Tuesday update.…
CrowdStrike released a Preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) on the faulty Falcon update explaining that a bug allowed bad data to pass its Content Validator and cause millions of Windows systems...
A bug in the Content Validator – a software element CrowdStrike relies on for testing and validating Rapid Response Content updates for its Falcon Sensors – is (partly) why the faulty update...
Microsoft warned that some Windows devices will boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the July 2024 Windows security updates. [...]
How could this happen to us? We were supposed to be two versions behind? If administrators have learned anything from the CrowdStrike chaos, it's to understand exactly what delayed updates mean –...
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...
Threat actors are exploiting the massive business disruption from CrowdStrike's glitchy update on Friday to target companies with data wipers and remote access tools. In an update today, CrowdStrike says that it "Is actively assisting customers" impacted by the recent content update that crashed millions of Windows hosts worldwide.