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Security vendor CrowdStrike has shared details on how its content configuration update impacted its Falcon Sensor and the Windows Operating System resulting in a Blue Screen crash .
CrowdStrike reveals the how and why of its Blue Screen Crash
A ccording to CrowdStrike ’ s preliminary Post Incident Review , as part of regular operations , CrowdStrike released a content configuration update for the Windows sensor to gather telemetry on possible novel threat techniques .
These updates are a regular part of the dynamic protection mechanisms of the Falcon platform . The problematic
Rapid Response Content configuration update resulted in a Windows system crash with BSOD .
Microsoft first introduced BSOD or Blue Screen Of Death , to users of Windows 3.0 way back in 1993 . Blue screen of death is formally known as stop error and it is a critical error that has caused the Windows Operating System to crash . Systems in scope include Windows hosts running sensor version 7.11 and above that were online between Friday , July 19 , 2024 04:09 UTC and Friday , July 19 , 2024 05:27 UTC and received the update . With this update Mac and Linux hosts were not impacted .
The defect in the content update was reverted on Friday , July 19 , 2024 at 05:27 UTC . Systems coming online after this time , or that did not connect during
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