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Crowdstrike takes out last remaining threat vector (the users) (infosec.exchange)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by pyrex@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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The machines, now inaccessible, are arguably more secure than before.

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[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

some twenty four years ago i managed, amongst others, a company's samba and print server (that was at the time when all the company's servers were beige boxes with less memory and disk than the laptop i'm using to type this – and still they served a few hundred employees).

the machine developed a strange custom of hard-resetting itself, which we initially tracked to specific files being sent for printing; the behaviour was fully reproducible.

as it happened, it was a hardware fault somewhere between the mainboard and the integrated SCSI card; installing a separate SCSI card and reconnecting the disks and backup tape device fixed the problem. (i did not have the budget for a new serwer, no.)

establishing the actual cause took me fucking weeks.