Everyone was minding their business on Friday when they discovered their flight was delayed, their bank wasn't working, or the hospital couldn't offer certain services. A Windows issue was affecting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...