Delta can sue CrowdStrike over computer outage that caused 7,000 canceled flights
Delta can sue CrowdStrike over computer outage that caused 7,000 canceled flights
reuters.com
Delta can sue CrowdStrike over computer outage that caused 7,000 canceled flights
reuters.com
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.
I wouldn't call an auto update mechanism an unauthorised backdoor, it is required behaviour for that kind of software.
Yes crowd strike is a huge security risk