MOSCOW, July 24 A bug in the update for CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor cybersecurity application, which resulted in a crash on July 19 a global technical failure, was not noticed due to a bug in the diagnostic software, follows from the company’s statement.
According to the statement, the update was tested on March 5, but due to a bug in the diagnostic software, the error in the update was not noticed.
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“Due to an error in the content validator, one of the two template copies passed verification, despite the fact that it contained problematic data,” says a publication on the company’s website.
Last week there was a global technical failure , running on Windows, suffered from a failure that affected telecom operators, banks and airlines around the world. The American company CrowdStrike confirmed that a global failure in Windows occurred due to its update for the Falcon Sensor cybersecurity application.
According to an analysis by insurance company Parametrix, the losses of the largest American companies included in the Fortune 500 list will amount to $5.4 billion.
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