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      CrowdStrike Falcon Prevents Supply Chain Attack Involving Compromised NPM Packages
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      Preventing Container Escape Attempts with Falcon Cloud Security's Enhanced Runtime Capabilities
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      How CrowdStrike Traces Attack Paths to Sensitive Data in the Cloud
      How CrowdStrike Traces Attack Paths to Sensitive Data in the Cloud
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      CrowdStrike Services Observes SCATTERED SPIDER Escalate Attacks Across Industries
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      CrowdStrike Collaborates with U.S. Department of Justice on DanaBot Takedown
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      CrowdStrike 2025 Latin America Threat Landscape Report: A Deep Dive into an Evolving Region
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      CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report: Beware the Enterprising Adversary
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      CrowdStrike Falcon Prevents Supply Chain Attack Involving Compromised NPM Packages
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      CrowdStrike Ranked #1 in 2025 Frost Radar™ for MDR
      07/22/25
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      CrowdStrike Named a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms for Sixth Consecutive Time
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      Stop Remote Ransomware Attacks with Falcon Endpoint Security
      Stop Remote Ransomware Attacks with Falcon Endpoint Security
      07/14/25
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      CrowdStrike Researchers Develop Custom XGBoost Objective to Improve ML Model Release Stability
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      Byte Back: Next-Generation Malware Classification Using Binary Transformers
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      Leveraging CrowdStrike Falcon Against Attacks Targeting Okta Environments
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      Tech Analysis: Channel File May Contain Null Bytes
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      One Year Later: Reflecting on Building Resilience by Design
      07/14/25
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      How the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform Drove the Germany-Singapore Team to Success at NATO Locked Shields 2025
      07/03/25
      CrowdStrike and Microsoft Unite to Harmonize Cyber Threat Attribution
      CrowdStrike and Microsoft Unite to Harmonize Cyber Threat Attribution
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      CrowdStrike Detects and Blocks Initial SharePoint Zero-Day Exploitation
      07/21/25
      Prescription for Protection: Healthcare Industry Observations from CrowdStrike Investigations
      Prescription for Protection: Healthcare Industry Observations from CrowdStrike Investigations
      07/01/25
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      Redefining Incident Response in the Modern Era
      Redefining Incident Response in the Modern Era
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      Inside Mondelēz’s Identity Security Strategy with CrowdStrike
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      CrowdStrike Named a Leader and Fast Mover in GigaOm ISPM Radar
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      CrowdStrike Named a Customers’ Choice in 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for User Authentication Report
      06/04/25
      Falcon Identity Protection Innovations Stop Insider Risk, Secure Non-Human Identities, and Lock Down Privileged Access
      Falcon Identity Protection Innovations Stop Insider Risk, Secure Non-Human Identities, and Lock Down Privileged Access
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      CrowdStrike Named a Leader in the 2025 GigaOm SIEM Radar Report
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      How Falcon Next-Gen SIEM Protects Enterprises from VMware vCenter Attacks
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      04/28/25
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      CrowdStrike Advances Next-Gen SIEM with Threat Hunting Across Data Sources, AI-Driven UEBA
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      Zero Trust Strengthens Data Protection to Achieve National Cyber Strategy Goals
      01/15/25
      CrowdStrike Statement on Bloomberg’s October 25, 2024 Story
      CrowdStrike Statement on Bloomberg’s October 25, 2024 Story
      10/25/24
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      July 2025 Patch Tuesday: One Publicly Disclosed Zero-Day and 12 Critical Vulnerabilities Among 137 CVEs
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      Falcon Exposure Management’s AI-Powered Risk Prioritization Shows Organizations What to Fix First
      06/25/25
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      June 2025 Patch Tuesday: One Zero-Day and Nine Critical Vulnerabilities Among 66 CVEs
      06/10/25
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      Q&A: How Mastronardi Produce Secures Innovation with CrowdStrike
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      5 Key Data Protection Challenges and How to Overcome Them
      12/11/24
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      10/23/23
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Chip Flaws Spectre and Meltdown are Actually Three Vulnerabilities and Proving Hard to Mitigate

Chip Flaws Spectre and Meltdown are Actually Three Vulnerabilities and Proving Hard to Mitigate

January 11, 2018

Alex Ionescu From The Front Lines

The latest computer flaws to make global headlines are ominously titled “Spectre” and “Meltdown” and they represent a unique breed of trouble, requiring unprecedented industry collaboration and manual[…]

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