The global outage caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike on Friday affected some 8.5 million Windows devices, leading to a blue screen of death and disrupting essential services like hospitals and banks.
Microsoft and CrowdStrike continue to address the fallout, collaborating to develop a solution with the help of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to expedite fixes for the faulty update.
CrowdStrike's faulty sensor configuration update, targeting malicious named pipes, resulted in a logic error causing an operating system crash for devices on Windows 7.11 and above using the Falcon sensor.
Only a small percentage of Windows machines were impacted, with Microsoft's VP mentioning that the total affected devices were less than one percent of all Windows systems.
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