CrowdStrike says the problematic July 19 software update that affected 8.5M Windows devices was deployed into production due to “a bug in the Content Validator” (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

Simon Sharwood / The Register:
CrowdStrike says the problematic July 19 software update that affected 8.5M Windows devices was deployed into production due to “a bug in the Content Validator”  —  CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week.