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.

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nzEnglish
    181·
    7 months ago

    Except “freak out” could have various manifestations.

    In this case it was “burn down the venue”.

    It should have been “I’m sorry, there’s been an issue, let’s move on to the next speaker”

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      7 months ago

      In this case it was “burn down the venue”.

      It was more like “barricade the doors until a swat team sniper gets a clear shot at you”.

      • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nzEnglish
        12·
        7 months ago

        Hmmmm.

        More like standing there and loudly shitting your pants and spreading it around the stage.

    • tiramichu@lemm.eeEnglish
      63·
      7 months ago

      You’re right of course and that should be on Microsoft to better implement their driver loading. But yes.

      • Morphit @feddit.ukEnglish
        7·
        7 months ago

        The driver is in kernel mode. If it crashes, the kernel has no idea if any internal structures have been left in an inconsistent state. If it doesn’t halt then it has the potential to cause all sorts of damage.