eBPF versus Kernel Extensions

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Recent events in the world of cybersecurity have brought an influx of attention to a technology known as kernel extensions, and the serious risks that can arise when third-party programs that utilize this technology experience bugs and incompatibilities. So today, we thought it would be useful to dive into the two main approaches for building “agents” or […]

What Happened with the CrowdStrike Update?

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A recent CrowdStrike Falcon sensor update has caused a massive Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) outage. CrowdStrike offers endpoint protection and other services that are used on a widespread scale worldwide, and this sensor update issue is causing global issues. Impact There are widespread reports of BSOD error on Windows hosts, all of which […]