A new recovery tool from Microsoft helps speed up the process to fix computers affected by the faulty CrowdStrike update. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty ...

Is your company home to any of the 8.5 million Windows PCs clobbered by the July 18 CrowdStrike-induced outage? If so, Microsoft has a new recovery tool designed to help you repair those corrupted ...

But the cleanup effort continues. Microsoft estimates that around 8.5 million Windows systems were affected by the issue, which involved a buggy .sys file that was automatically pushed to Windows PCs ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. A week after a botched CrowdStrike update caused Windows machines ...

Oof, Windows is having a rough week. Only five days after a massive CrowdStrike update-slash-outage made headlines for crippling IT infrastructure all over the world (which, admittedly, is a ...

In the New York Times coverage of the CrowdStrike update bug that wreaked havoc starting last Friday, there’s a lovely deadpan line eleven paragraphs in: Apple and Linux machines were not affected by ...

Cutting corners: The global computer crash earlier this month, caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update, was a disaster for many. However, a hero emerged at Grant Thornton Australia: senior systems ...

Last Friday, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike issued an update to its kernel-level software that caused approximately 8.5 million Windows PCs to be thrown into infinite blue screen of death boot ...

Maybe giving security firms access to the Windows isn’t the best idea, but freezing them out could be worse. The massive worldwide Windows outage caused by a disastrous update from the security ...

But even as Microsoft works on fixing the numerous issues already in play, more problems are surfacing — like a recent issue involving Microsoft Office apps crashing when a particular antivirus ...

After a system update pushed by CrowdStrike on Friday upended government services, emergency call centers, banks, airlines, hospitals, and other businesses, most systems are up and running as normal ...