A recent global technology outage grounded media houses, flights, knocked banks offline after a faulty software update disrupted companies and services around the world. In the earliest hours of the outages, some TV stations, including Sky News in the UK, stopped live news broadcast. According to Microsoft, about 8.5 million estimated computers around the world were disabled by the global IT outage. Experts said it could be the worst cyber event in history. The glitch came from a security company called CrowdStrike, which sent out a corrupted software update to its huge number of customers. According to Microsoft, “we currently
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