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Microsoft IT outage latest: Airports, businesses and banks including Sky News experiencing issues worldwide (news.sky.com)
submitted 3 months ago by onlinepersona to c/security
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Caused by security firm CrowdStrike that issued an update.

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[–] onlinepersona 1 points 3 months ago

With deaths involved and not just delayed, I wonder if the repercussions will be greater. I fear they will not.

Most likely hospitals and other infrastructure are critically underfunded and are running terribly outdated systems with no money for upgrades or restructuring to move to more secure systems. They could sue, but even if they win, it might not return enough money to do what needs to be done in order to minimize the risk of future such events.

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