By Reuters and published by Yahoo!Finance SERVICES from airlines to healthcare, shipping and finance were coming back online on Friday (July 19) after a mistake in a security software update sparked hours-long global computer systems outages, another incident highlighting the vulnerability of the world’s interconnected technologies. After the outage was resolved, companies were dealing
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Global cyber outage grounds flights, hits banks, telecoms, media
By Reuters and published by US News & World Report A SOFTWARE update wreaked havoc on computer systems globally on Friday (July 19), grounding flights, forcing some broadcasters off air and hitting services from banking to healthcare. An update to a product offered by global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike appeared to be the trigger, affecting
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