{"id":245933,"date":"2024-07-20T20:24:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T20:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/outage-caused-by-crowdstrikes-disastrous-update-affected-8-5-million-devices\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:14:19","slug":"outage-caused-by-crowdstrikes-disastrous-update-affected-8-5-million-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/outage-caused-by-crowdstrikes-disastrous-update-affected-8-5-million-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Outage caused by CrowdStrike\u2019s disastrous update affected 8.5 million devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The global outage caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike on Friday affected some 8.5 million Windows devices, <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/20\/helping-our-customers-through-the-crowdstrike-outage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Microsoft;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Microsoft<\/a> said in a blog post. The update <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/faulty-cybersecurity-update-takes-out-banks-airlines-and-other-major-companies-worldwide-085142264.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:triggered a blue screen of death;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">triggered a blue screen of death<\/a>, bringing systems used by hospitals, airlines, banks and other major services temporarily to a standstill. Only machines running Windows were affected.<\/p>\n<p>While the issue was mostly resolved by Friday afternoon, Microsoft and CrowdStrike are still dealing with the fallout. In the blog post on Saturday, Microsoft\u2019s VP of Enterprise and OS Security, David Weston, wrote that the company is working with CrowdStrike to \u201cdevelop a scalable solution that will help Microsoft\u2019s Azure infrastructure accelerate a fix for CrowdStrike\u2019s faulty update.\u201d Microsoft has also called in help from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).<\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdstrike.com\/blog\/falcon-update-for-windows-hosts-technical-details\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CrowdStrike;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">CrowdStrike<\/a> said in its own blog post on Saturday that the update \u2014 a sensor configuration update \u2014 \u201cwas designed to target newly observed, malicious named pipes being used by common C2 frameworks in cyberattacks.\u201d Unfortunately, for devices running Windows 7.11 and above that use CrowdStrike\u2019s Falcon sensor, it instead \u201ctriggered a logic error that resulted in an operating system crash.\u201d The total number of devices affected worked out to be \u201cless than one percent of all Windows machines,\u201d according to Weston.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/outage-caused-by-crowdstrikes-disastrous-update-affected-85-million-devices-192703245.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The global outage caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike on Friday affected some 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft said in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}