CEOs and board members woke this morning (or were awakened in the night) by word of what, for many of us, is a nightmare scenario: A IT disaster had taken down Windows-based computers across the globe.
For those impacted, it’s a total disaster. But the good news (good-ish news?) is that this wasn’t a deliberate attack by a foreign power, or a hacktivist collective or someone like that. This was the good guys—cyber provider CrowdStrike—screwing up a security update (and watching their stock fall off a table in the aftermath).
But even if it is just a screw up, it is one for the record books, taking down everything from 911 systems to airports to millions of private businesses offline as they struggle to work from DOS-era command prompt lines to delete the killer code.
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