Lowe’s uses a customized Linux distro for their department terminal computers. Most of what you do is in browser or terminal applications, if genesis is still in use.
Because Microsoft isn’t responsible for every program that runs on their OS.
CrowdStrike is an EDR that enterprises choose to install. The bug was caused by a dodgy content bundle update, which is something that’s meant to be 100% safe but evidently they found and triggered a bug.
Thanks for posting this for awareness! I love this theme now
But, eventually exploitable is still a pretty major concern for anybody who has systems running longer than a few days at a time.
This is the third attempt they’ve made to work with that guy that actually got routed to me because their salespeople don’t do their due diligence. Shocking.
Edit; a little extra context: I have an email alias on a domain similar to one he might use, and regularly receive email addressed to him. Reddit marketing folks reached out in a less cookie cutter manner a couple times last year, this is more of a mailing list outreach attempt.
I’m pretty sure the domain name might just be a consequence of it being free to register for a year at a time through freenom, and being not super known for spam like .tk
This absolutely is not true today, they create links that are absolute and refer to the host of the community in question.
Probably “shiny gold”- it was super impressive for the time period but was never finished officially and didn’t age super well.