Inb4 an out of court settlement happens in about a year and a half with CS not admitting fault but paying an undisclosed amount to Delta.
The Atlanta-based judge also let Delta pursue a computer trespass claim, and a narrowed claim that CrowdStrike fraudulently promised not to introduce an “unauthorized back door” into the carrier’s computers.
Isn’t autoupdating software by definition an authorized backdoor by virtue of enabling it? The whole premise of CrowdStrike is continuous updates for attacks they see in the wild on other companies’ systems.
Also if anything CrowdStrike did the opposite of a backdoor since everyone needed to find their BitLocker keys to get back in and clean this mess. It locked out the front and back door.
There was an additional auto update function that wasn’t disclosed. Delta had disabled the auto update because, like many large companies, they prefer to deploy changes incrementally so that an issue doesn’t blow-up all their systems at once.
So…
Isn’t autoupdating software by definition an authorized backdoor by virtue of enabling it?
Yes. Which is why they contend disabling it makes it unauthorized.
That’s not how that works. CS didn’t have at the time, an option to disable channel file updates. It’s how their edr works. Delta’s mssp or secops group, %100 knew this as it’s in CS own documentation. They really don’t have a foot to stand on here, but CS will pay it to make it go away.
Inb4 an out of court settlement happens in about a year and a half with CS not admitting fault but paying an undisclosed amount to Delta.
Also, this will be interesting.
Isn’t autoupdating software by definition an authorized backdoor by virtue of enabling it? The whole premise of CrowdStrike is continuous updates for attacks they see in the wild on other companies’ systems.
Also if anything CrowdStrike did the opposite of a backdoor since everyone needed to find their BitLocker keys to get back in and clean this mess. It locked out the front and back door.
There was an additional auto update function that wasn’t disclosed. Delta had disabled the auto update because, like many large companies, they prefer to deploy changes incrementally so that an issue doesn’t blow-up all their systems at once.
So…
Yes. Which is why they contend disabling it makes it unauthorized.
That’s not how that works. CS didn’t have at the time, an option to disable channel file updates. It’s how their edr works. Delta’s mssp or secops group, %100 knew this as it’s in CS own documentation. They really don’t have a foot to stand on here, but CS will pay it to make it go away.
Yes crowd strike is a huge security risk