CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft
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The global IT outage on Friday resulted from a sensor configuration update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform that caused a Windows logic error.
But they were the *right* 8.5 million devices, apparently
I'm curious how they came to that figure, but I'm assuming it's based on the number of BSOD reports they got, plus a factor for the number of people that don't send that home.
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The global IT outage on Friday resulted from a sensor configuration update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform that caused a Windows logic error.
But they were the *right* 8.5 million devices, apparently
I'm curious how they came to that figure, but I'm assuming it's based on the number of BSOD reports they got, plus a factor for the number of people that don't send that home.
Kent Sharkey wrote:
curious how they came to that figure
The number of machines that stopped sending data back to MS?
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The global IT outage on Friday resulted from a sensor configuration update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform that caused a Windows logic error.
But they were the *right* 8.5 million devices, apparently
I'm curious how they came to that figure, but I'm assuming it's based on the number of BSOD reports they got, plus a factor for the number of people that don't send that home.
Wouldn't they have simply counted ClowdStrike installs?