christian_taillon (@christian_tail)
twiiit.com
You're correct. Full of zeros at least.

…according to a Twitter post by the Chief Informational Security Officer of Grand Canyon Education.

So, does anyone else find it odd that the file that caused everything CrowdStrike to freak out, C-00000291-
00000000-00000032.sys was 42KB of blank/null values, while the replacement file C-00000291-00000000-
00000.033.sys was 35KB and looked like a normal, if not obfuscated sys/.conf file?

Also, apparently CrowdStrike had at least 5 hours to work on the problem between the time it was discovered and the time it was fixed.

  • TelorandEnglish
    90·
    2 months ago

    You mean it’s going to cost corporations a pretty penny. Which means they’ll pass those “costs of operation” on to the rest of us. Fuck.

    • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
      32·
      2 months ago

      well, the world does include the rest of us.

      and its not just opeerational costs. what happens when an outage lasts 3+ days and affects all communication and travel? thats another massive shock to the system.

      they come faster and faster.

    • zbyte64@awful.systemsEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      You did not just fall out of a coconut tree. You exist in a context of all that came before you.