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Travellers around the world are facing a second day of chaos in the aftermath of Friday’s global IT outage. Here, Sky News looks at what you can do if you’re affected by the disruption. Air passengers Friday was meant to be one of the busiest days of the summer as families jetted off on holidays
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The NHS has warned of “continued disruption” to GP services into next week following the global IT outage – as airline passengers reported lengthy delays and lost baggage this weekend. The outage spread globally on Friday morning after an update from global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike knocked many Microsoft Windows PCs offline with a “blue screen
Disruption caused by the global IT outage has continued this weekend as airline passengers reported long delays and lost baggage, while pharmacies tried to deal with a backlog in medicine deliveries. The outage spread globally on Friday morning after an update from global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike knocked many Microsoft Windows PCs offline with a “blue
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After the chaos of Friday’s global IT outage – without doubt the worst the world has seen – questions are starting to be asked about who, if anyone, will pick up the bill. Somewhat surprisingly, particularly given its share price has doubled during the year and was trading on a stratospheric rating, shares of CrowdStrike,
In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, CrowdStrike logo of a U.S. cybersecurity technology company is seen on a smartphone and a pc screen. Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike suffered a major outage on Friday, the company told NBC, impacting
CrowdStrike makes software to help firms manage their security in IT environments. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike saw its shares plunge Friday, after an update led to a major outage, impacting businesses across the world. Shares of the company, which makes software to help firms manage their security in IT
It could take “weeks” to fix a global IT outage which grounded more than 5,000 flights, an expert has warned, as the full impact of the software bug becomes clear. The outage spread globally on Friday morning after an update from global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike knocked many Microsoft Windows PCs offline with a “blue screen
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This wasn’t supposed to happen. We were told that as the internet matured, that this kind of thing – a single error causing a domino effect taking out millions of machines – was supposed to become less and less likely. There would be more and more servers and cables distributed in more and more places,
In this article CRWD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT George Kurtz, co-founder and CEO of CrowdStrike Inc., speaks during the Montgomery Summit in Santa Monica, California. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images A fault with an update issued by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike led to a cascade effect among global IT systems Friday,
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The CrowdStrike IT outage has been devastating for commerce, healthcare and transport because it was entirely agnostic in the services it affected. This was not a sector or function-specific glitch, like the unconnected interruption to CHAPS transactions overseen by the Bank of England the previous evening. To have a problem, irrespective of where you were
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Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi on Friday launched its first flip phone alongside an upgraded version of its foldable. Evelyn Cheng BEIJING — Xiaomi on Friday launched its first flip phone with the ability to print pictures instantly using a separately sold portable printer. The Mix Flip starts at 5,999 yuan ($825), the company announced. Preorders