CrowdStrike reveals root cause of global Microsoft meltdown [Video]

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company at the centre of last month’s Microsoft meltdown, has claimed that a single sensor error led to the worldwide outage.

More than eight million Microsoft users reported on 19 July that their computers wouldn’t turn on, with monitors showing the “blue screen of death”.

The outage caused widespread chaos as television stations went offline, air travel was disrupted and hospitals were forced to cancel appointments.

In a preliminary report soon after, CrowdStrike claimed the outage was caused by a faulty update to its Falcon sensor.

The Falcon platform has wide access to computers, sitting at the kernel level of the Windows operating system, and is supposed to analyse a range of sensors to protect systems from malicious software and hackers. It works by examining …