Digital boards in Times Square appear blank due to the global communications outage caused by CrowdStrike in New York on July 19.
Photographer: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu/Getty ImagesHow a Routine CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers
A tiny file ricocheted around the globe, exposing the global IT network’s fragility and the risks of industry consolidation.
When Brendan Delaney, a doctor with the UK’s National Health Service, turned up at his London clinic on Friday, he was expecting a busy day seeing patients.
It had been two months since a devastating cyberattack had affected hospitals and clinics in southeast London. And doctors like Delaney, who’s also a professor at Imperial College London, were finally beginning to feel a return to normalcy. They could send off urgent blood tests again, and cybersecurity experts were making progress repairing and replacing information technology systems that had previously been shut down by a criminal hacker gang.