…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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    So… Microsoft couldn’t have “rubber-stamped” anything to do with the outage.

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      The outage only affected the Windows version of Falcon. OSX and Linux were not affected.

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        This time. Last time it did affect Linux. It doesn’t have anything to do with Microsoft.
        Sorry to burst your bubble.

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          In this thread we’re talking about the recent problem with CrowdStrike on Windows that brought down various services around the world. So I don’t know who’s bubble you think you’re bursting by talking about something else.

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            Windows kernel drivers are signed by Microsoft. They must have rubber stamped this for this to go through, though.

            Try to keep up.

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              You look so kewl if I were a child again I’d speak just like you

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                Quoting the comment that started this thread is speaking like a child to you?