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Global IT outage brings warnings of digital dependence and growing range of risks

Peter Stonham
01 August 2024
 

Though air travel seemed to bear the worst transport consequences of the global IT outage on friday 19th July, it was also blamed

for train service disruptions and brought warnings from experts on the vulnerability of systems on which service suppliers have become highly dependent. The shutdown has been attributed to a glitch in a cyber security software update by CrowdStrike, which caused millions of computers running Microsoft’s Windows to crash It resulted in a so-called “blue...

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