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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

…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.

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[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 396 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Every affected company should be extremely thankful that this was an accidental bug, because if crowdstrike gets hacked, it means the bad actors could basically ransom I don't know how many millions of computers overnight

Not to mention that crowdstrike will now be a massive target from hackers trying to do exactly this

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 223 points 11 months ago
[-] planish@sh.itjust.works 86 points 11 months ago
[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 53 points 11 months ago

New vulnerability just dropped

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Oooooooo this one again thank you for reminding me

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

That one turns out to have been largely Microsoft's fault for repeatedly ignoring warnings of a severe vulnerability relating to Active Directory. Microsoft were warned about it, acknowledged it and ignored it for years until it got used in the Solar Winds hack.

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