…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.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    Companies don’t like to be beta testers. Apparently the solution is to just not test anything and call it production ready.

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      Every company has a full-scale test environment. Some companies are just lucky enough to have a separate prod environment.