Airports, banks, TV stations, health care organizations, hotels, and countless other businesses are still reeling from widespread IT outages, leaving flights grounded and causing untold disruption. The cause? A software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike that crashed Windows machines across the globe.
Only a handful of times in history has a single piece of code managed to instantly wreck computer systems worldwide. This time, the ongoing digital catastrophe appears to have been triggered not by malicious code released by hackers but by the software designed to stop them.
Here's how it happened, how it's impacting the world, and where we go from here.
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