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CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made

CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week. A Wednesday update to its remediation guide added a Preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) that offers the vendor's view of how it brought down 8.5 million Windows boxes. The explanation opens by detailing that CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor ships with "Sensor Content" that defines its capabilities. The software is updated with "Rapid Response Content" that allows it to detect and collect info on new...

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