CrowdStrike

Post-CrowdStrike catastrophe, Microsoft figures moving antivirus out of Windows kernel mode is a good idea

Existing low-level access for security solutions will undergo a rework

OSes13 Sep 2024 | 39

CrowdStrike hopes legal threats will fade as time passes since it broke the world

CFO says company hasn't been sued by any customers – yet

Software09 Sep 2024 | 25

House to grill CrowdStrike exec on epic IT meltdown... no, not the CEO

VP Adam Meyers to testify about that faulty software update which ruined July and some of August

Software02 Sep 2024 | 21

CrowdStrike's meltdown didn't dent its market dominance … yet

Total revenue for Q2 grew 32 percent

Software29 Aug 2024 | 22

CrowdStrike deja vu as 'performance issue' leaves systems sluggish

Not related to the massive outage in July, security biz spokesperson told us

Security22 Aug 2024 | 14

CrowdStrike president cheered after accepting 'Epic Fail' Pwnie award

DEF CON Michael Sentonas hopes trophy will remind staff that failure is unacceptable

Offbeat12 Aug 2024 | 53

Delta: CrowdStrike's offer to help in Falcon meltdown was too little, too late

Airline unimpressed with 'unhelpful and untimely' phone call from CEO, Falcon maker says claims untrue

CxO08 Aug 2024 | 32

Microsoft punches back at Delta Air Lines and its legal threats

SatNad himself offered CrowdStrike recovery help, Redmond says, before suggesting airline's IT is in a mess

CxO07 Aug 2024 | 39

CrowdStrike hires outside security outfits to review troubled Falcon code

And reveals more and more about small mistake that bricked 8.5M Windows boxes

Security07 Aug 2024 | 55

CrowdStrike unhappy about Delta's 'litigation threat,' claims airline refused 'free on-site help'

Vendor plans to aggressively defend its case before listing catalog of shortcomings at the airline

Security05 Aug 2024 | 67

Too late now for canary test updates, says pension fund suing CrowdStrike

That horse has not just bolted, it's trampled all over kernel space

CSO01 Aug 2024 | 114

Delta Air Lines dials up Microsoft's legal nemesis over CrowdStrike losses

Oh, Boies, here we go again

CSO30 Jul 2024 | 17

Post-CrowdStrike, Microsoft to discourage use of kernel drivers by security tools

Updated Now there's an idea – parsing config data in user mode

OSes29 Jul 2024 | 49

CrowdStrike meets Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will

Opinion And boy, did last Friday's Windows fiasco ever prove that yet again

Patches26 Jul 2024 | 98

CrowdStrike update blunder may cost world billions – and insurance ain't covering it all

We offer this formula instead: RND(100.0)*(10^9)

CSO26 Jul 2024 | 60

Beware of fake CrowdStrike domains pumping out Lumma infostealing malware

PSA: Only accept updates via official channels ... ironically enough

Malware Month25 Jul 2024 | 3

How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash

This one weird trick saved countless hours and stress – no, really

OSes25 Jul 2024 | 89

The months and days before and after CrowdStrike's fatal Friday

Analysis 'In the short term, they're going to have to do a lot of groveling'

CSO25 Jul 2024 | 46

CrowdStrike fiasco highlights growing Sino-Russian tech independence

Analysis China is playing a long game, which could pay off on an enormous scale

Software24 Jul 2024 | 62

CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made

Something called 'Content Validator' did not validate the content, and the rest is history

Security24 Jul 2024 | 154

How did a CrowdStrike file crash millions of Windows computers? We take a closer look at the code

Analysis Maybe next time some staged rollouts? A bit of QA too?

CSO23 Jul 2024 | 119

Administrators have update lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage

How could this happen to us? We were supposed to be two versions behind?

Security23 Jul 2024 | 34

Cybercrooks spell trouble with typosquatting domains amid CrowdStrike crisis

Latest trend follows various malware campaigns that began just hours after IT calamity

Cyber-crime23 Jul 2024 | 4

CrowdStrike CEO summoned to explain epic fail to US Homeland Security committee

Boss faces grilling before Congress over disastrous software snafu

Software23 Jul 2024 | 50

EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims Microsoft

Was a 2009 agreement on interoperability to blame?

Security22 Jul 2024 | 220

CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes

Updated Rapid restore tool being tested as Microsoft estimates 8.5M machines went down

Security21 Jul 2024 | 84

CrowdStrike Windows patchpocalypse could take weeks to fix, IT admins fear

Kettle Our vultures gather to review this very freaky Friday

CSO19 Jul 2024 | 75

Cybercriminals quickly exploit CrowdStrike chaos

Who loves a global outage? Phishers, fraudsters and all manner of creeps

Software19 Jul 2024 | 24

Life, interrupted: How CrowdStrike's patch failure is messing up the world

Oh, was it supposed to be Y2K24?

Software19 Jul 2024 | 116

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

CrowdStrike? More like ClownStrike! Amirite?

Software19 Jul 2024 | 266

Azure VMs ruined by CrowdStrike patchpocalypse? Microsoft has recovery tips

Updated Have you tried turning it off and on again, like, a bunch?

PaaS + IaaS19 Jul 2024 | 65

Second NHS IT system confirmed to be affected by CrowdStrike issues

Cancer treatments are in jeopardy across multiple healthcare facilities

Software19 Jul 2024 | 34

CrowdStrike shares sink as global IT outage savages systems worldwide

Updated Emergency services, medical practices, airlines, banks, and more all crippled

Software19 Jul 2024 | 285

CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world

Updated Falcon Sensor putting hosts into deathloop - but there's a workaround

Software19 Jul 2024 | 550

Firms skip security reviews of major app updates about half the time

Updated Complicated, costly, time-consuming – pick three

Patches18 Jul 2024 | 18

Orgs are having a major identity crisis while crims reap the rewards

Hacking your way in is so 2022 – logging in is much easier

Security21 Feb 2024 | 8

Ransomware-as-a-service groups rain money on their affiliates

Qilin gang crims can earn up to 85 percent of extortion cash, or jail

Cyber-crime17 May 2023 | 4

RSA Conference or Black Mirror? Either way, we're doomed ... probably

RSA Conference Luckily CrowdStrike's CSO has a brighter outlook than we vultures

Spotlight on RSA30 Apr 2023 | 7

We're now truly in the era of ransomware as pure extortion without the encryption

Feature Why screw around with cryptography and keys when just stealing the info is good enough

Research25 Jun 2022 | 22

Security is a pain for American Dental Association: Ransomware infection feared

In brief Plus: Another university hit with malware, and more

Research02 May 2022 | 5

Kubernetes container runtime CRI-O has make-me-root flaw

Cr8escape priv-escalation bug opens the door to cluster takeovers

Devops15 Mar 2022 | 1

For those with zero trust in zero-trust networks, this industry alliance may help

Will someone give the buzzwords a buzz cut?

Networks11 Mar 2022 | 5

CrowdStrike offers fully managed identity-threat-detection-as-a-service

The further you move from the office, the more wild the product descriptions

Security03 Mar 2022 | 2

Crims target telcos' Linux and Solaris boxes, which don't get enough infosec love

CrowdStrike says 'LightBasin' gang avoids Windows, and knows that telco networks run on badly-secured *nix

Security20 Oct 2021 | 23

JumpCloud hooks investment from Atlassian Ventures and CrowdStrike Falcon Fund for $225m total funding round

Cloud directory start-up valued at $2.65bn

Off-Prem19 Oct 2021 |

Microsoft president asks Congress to force private-sector orgs to admit when they've been hacked

Senate intelligence committee hears ideas in light of SolarWinds disaster

Security24 Feb 2021 | 28

SolarWinds malware was sneaked out of the firm's Orion build environment 6 months before anyone realised it was there – report

Crowdstrike tech analysts explain how they think it slipped under the radar

Security12 Jan 2021 | 14

Confused why Trump fingered CrowdStrike in that Ukraine call? You're not the only one...

Security biz that probed 2016 DNC hack makes an odd cameo in revealed transcript

Security25 Sep 2019 | 62

Symantec comes out in swinging in bitter legal battle over security bug audit conspiracy claims

Profit driving NSS claims of industry boycott, antivirus makers swear

Security29 Nov 2018 | 6

The Obama-era cyber détente with China was nice, wasn't it? Yeah well it's obviously over now

Middle Kingdom is a rising threat once again – research

Security11 Oct 2018 | 46

SaaS-y security outfit CrowdStrike falls out of love with test lab

Updated Tries – and fails – to have court suppress review of its Falcon product

Security14 Feb 2017 | 4

'Nobody cares about your heart-rate'

CrowdStrike's Mike Sentonas talks IoT security with El Reg

Security21 Jun 2016 | 33

Lone hacker claims to have broken into US Democrat servers

Guccifer 2 posts files as 'proof' – says rest sent to Wikileaks

Security16 Jun 2016 | 15

Heartbleed, eat your heart out: VENOM vuln poisons countless VMs

Widespread virtualization flaw dates back over a decade

On-Prem13 May 2015 | 19

China's 'Deep Panda' crew targets Middle East policy wonks - report

Spy hackers now ignoring domestic threats - infosec bods

Security08 Jul 2014 | 4

Pictures of elite 'Chinese military hacker' published

'Putter Panda' hack crew part of PLA SIGINT apparat, allege security bods People's Republic mouthpiece: So what, the US does this too

Security10 Jun 2014 | 15