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When I woke up this morning to the news of this massive global IT outage, I was sure it was a cyberattack, especially given the timing of Zelensky visiting the UK today and Trump's inflamatory acceptance presidential nomination speech overnight. However, it turned out instead to be some dodgy little update from CrowdStrike that took everything out! It wasn't even meant to be a very important update, hence it wasn't tested as thoroughly as others which is why it wasn't caught before release. Seriously, if this had been a movie plot, one would have said nah, too implausible, yet here we are, with the continuing aftermath of this royal cockup. Let's see how it develops.
Live news coverage:
Cyber-security firm Crowdstrike has admitted that the problem was caused by an update to its antivirus software, which is designed to protect Microsoft Windows devices from malicious attacks.
Microsoft has said it is taking "mitigation action" to deal with "the lingering impact" of the outage.
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Crowdstrike and Microsoft: What we know about global IT outage
A mass IT outage has caused chaos around the world, with major airlines among the victims.
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Microsoft IT outage live updates: Global IT chaos persists as Crowdstrike boss admits outage could take time to fix
Airports, banking and healthcare were all hit when a Crowdstrike update triggered huge Microsoft outages.
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