CrowdStrike has blamed faulty testing software for a buggy update that crashed 8.5 million Windows machines around the world, it wrote in an post incident review (PIR).

This was due to a “bug in the Content Validator.” When this update reached Windows devices, “problematic content in Channel File 291 resulted in an out-of-bounds memory read triggering an ...

Software testing is hard. Even with the right talent in place, it doesn’t always go as planned — particularly when executed at scale. In a 2020 survey from Electric Cloud, 58% of developers ...