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Fuzzing and staggering: Crowdstrike post-mortem suggests testing lessons learned the hard way
EDR firm promises better QA, more customer control, after botched detection update crashed 8.5 million Windows systems.
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Crowdstrike promises RCA as C++ null pointer claim contested
"We are committed to identifying any foundational or workflow improvements" says EDR firm.
Outages
CrowdStrike’s unholy cluster is terrible news for CISOs
AWS EC2 Windows instances also borked with Crowdstrike's manual mitigation not working. Guidance available but...
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Crowdstrike CEO apologises after content update "defect" caused global blue screen of death outage
"I don’t think it’s too early to call it: this will be the largest IT outage in history," celebrity cybersecurity specialist announces
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CrowdStrike bug maxes out 100% of CPU, requires Windows reboots
"Note: This is 100% of a single core. In an 8-core system for example, an additional 12.5% of unexpected total CPU load would be experienced..."
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What is Kerberoasting? Only the hottest new attack trend of the
Researchers say a hacking technique known as "kerberoasting" is becoming increasingly popular with cybercrime groups
Cybersecurity
Malware use is plummeting because employee credentials are so easy to get: CrowdStrike
"Adversaries continue to have success with older, widely publicized and patchable exploits."
Featured
Webroot sues CrowdStrike, Sophos, others over alleged patent infringement
"Legitimate licensing discussions start with a phone call, not a lawsuit..."
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CrowdStrike names Turkey and Colombia as significant new sources of cyber-attacks
New state actors, labelled Wolf and Ocelot, identified in threat report