…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.
I wonder how many governments and companies will take this as a lesson on why brittle systems suck. My guess is most of them won’t… It’s popular to rely on very large third party services, which makes this type of incident inevitable.
oh they’ll take it as a lesson all right, up until they get the quote to fix it suddenly the downtime becomes non-issue as long as it “doesn’t happen again”