It’s been nearly a year since a faulty CrowdStrike update took down 8.5 million Windows-based machines around the world, and Microsoft wants to ensure such a problem never happens again. After holding ...

Following the massive Windows outage in July caused by a defective CrowdStrike update, Microsoft is working on a way to allow security products to ‘run in user mode just as apps do,’ Microsoft’s David ...

Microsoft is offering ways to secure its systems without the need for kernel-level access, and security software vendors like CrowdStrike are adopting them. CrowdStrike is aligning with Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft recently met with executives from some of its biggest security partners, including beleaguered CrowdStrike, to discuss ways to protect their mutual customers from another crippling outage.

In the summer of 2024, corporate anti-malware provider CrowdStrike pushed a broken update to millions of PCs and servers running some version of Microsoft’s Windows software, taking down systems that ...

‘We’ve heard the feedback loud and clear,’ David Weston, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of enterprise and OS security, said. Microsoft will release a series of security and resilience services ...

A 2009 EU anti-competition ruling has been used as a line of defence by Microsoft as questions are being asked over why a third-party product was able to take down Windows. On Friday 19 July, 8.5 ...

A new Microsoft announcement suggests it has found a way to deliver kernel-level visibility and capabilities to apps running in user mode. Experts conclude a ban on kernel access for cybersecurity ...

CrowdStrike’s faulty update has kicked off questions about how to avoid a similar tech disaster. CrowdStrike’s faulty update has kicked off questions about how to avoid a similar tech disaster. is a ...

Industries ranging from healthcare to banking, air travel, and others were hit by a global IT outage on Friday, July 19th, that impacted 8.5 million Windows PCs and servers connected to the ...