…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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    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.