Cybersecurity experts say lessons can be learned from global tech outage

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Published 2024-07-19

Impacts of a global technology outage could be felt far and wide, causing thousands of canceled flights and tens of thousands more delayed around the world. The outage also disrupted hospitals, government offices and banks. “It is very rare for the application of one of these patches to create this level of disruption,” said Ian Marlow, CEO of Fitech. The technology meltdown stemmed from a faulty software update issued by major cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and affected customers running Microsoft Windows. According to CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, it was not the result of hacking or a cyberattack.

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@plowe6751 yesterday

Always wait at least 24 hours before performing updates and check the news before doing so.
@tech-bore8839 yesterday

Guess we didn't learn our lesson from last time. Remember when flights were grounded because some tech "copied the wrong file" into the airlines' system? Stop connecting everything together!
@k_something6124 23 hours ago

Thanks. What else can these experts share? Anything useful or informative, or do we all need to keep pretending there’s value in what they say to us?