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Technology@beehaw.org · 4 months ago

Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues

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Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues

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Technology@beehaw.org · 4 months ago

Highlights from the global tech outage: Airlines, businesses and border crossings hit by global tech disruption

A faulty software update issued by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected computers running Microsoft Windows, grounding flights and disrupting systems worldwide.

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The real solution is to not make anything that’s mission-critical reliant on Windows.

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