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Earth is in Shock Following the “Largest IT Outage in History”

On Friday, businesses throughout the world were dealing with a significant IT outage that caused disruptions to financial institutions, physicians’ offices, and TV broadcasters.

The impact on air travel has been especially severe, with airlines grounded, services delayed, and travellers advised by airports.

The company informed NBC that a problem with its most recent software upgrade caused a significant inconvenience for cybersecurity behemoth CrowdStrike earlier on Friday.

With emphasis on Mac and Linux hosts remaining unaffected, the business’s CEO, George Kurtz, has recently stated that the company is “actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts.”

“A cyberattack or security incident is not what this is. He posted on social media, saying, “The problem has been located, isolated, and fixed.

Source (CNBC)

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