Falcon Sensor is an agent that CrowdStrike claims "blocks attacks on your systems while capturing and recording activity as it happens to detect threats fast." Right now, however, the sensor ...

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The Falcon Sensor update. One of the selling points of CrowdStrike service is that it can improve its defenses rapidly as new threats are discovered.

CrowdStrike said the outage was not caused by a cyberattack, but was the result of a “defect” in a software update for its flagship security product, Falcon Sensor.

CrowdStrike was founded by George Kurtz, ... One of the modules in the Falcon platform is Falcon Sensor. This is a system that uses sensor data to track threats and vulnerabilities within a system.

CrowdStrike is the market leader in EDR solutions. This means its products – such as Falcon – are common and likely the pick of the bunch for organisations conscious of their cyber security.

When CBS News called CrowdStrike's technical support line Friday, a pre-recorded message said the company was aware of reports of crashes on Microsoft systems related to its Falcon Sensor software.

According to an alert sent by Crowdstrike to its clients and reviewed by Reuters, the company's "Falcon Sensor" software is causing Microsoft Windows to crash and display a blue screen, known ...

“We’re aware of an issue with Windows 365 Cloud PCs caused by a recent update to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor software,” Microsoft said on its 365 Status X account.

How widespread is this issue? CrowdStrike's software is popular and widely used, and as a result, there are numerous outages across platforms including Microsoft 365, Azure, Instagram, eBay, Visa ...