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Evening Edition: Why Today's Global Outage Should Be A Warning To The World

Publish Date: 2024/7/19
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The largest IT outage in history happened on Friday morning, after a faulty software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike left Microsoft computers across the country heavily disrupted.


Airports were forced to ground flights, with major businesses, banks, hospitals, and offices putting their essential work on hold as Microsoft rushed to resolve the widespread issue.


Michael Balboni, a former New York Homeland Security Advisor and the Managing Director of RedLand Strategies joins FOX's Eben Brown to discuss how a software malfunction like this may give terrorists and bad actors inspiration about attacking vulnerabilities in the US’s cyber infrastructure.


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