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A core issue is the ability of a digitally-enabled service function to switch immediately to manual,
The outage is likely to intensify regulations for critical services and risk management,
said Dr. Madeleine Stevens, an IT expert at Liverpool John Moores University Despite the incident not being a cyberattack, consumer skepticism will inadvertently be impacted, and this unintended demonstration of our cyber vulnerability will raise significant challenges for IT service providers,
It seems that millions of computers are going to have to be fixed by hand,
said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at WithSecure, a cybersecurity company The more interconnected the software is, the more vulnerable we will be, because more and more software will interact and it will increase,
Legay said in an interview with Euronews Next We have reminded the airlines of their responsibilities to take care of passengers if they experience major delays,
Pete Buttigieg, the US Secretary of Transportation, said, per the Associated Press When just three companies -- Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet Inc.'s Google -- dominate the market for cloud computing, one minor incident can have global ramifications,
wrote Parmy Olson, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology, on Friday As a result, passengers are unlikely to be entitled to fixed-sum compensation,
Unlike some previous outages that targeted Internet infrastructure, this situation directly impacts end-user computers and could require manual intervention to resolve, posing a significant challenge for IT teams globally,
We've had these sorts of outages before and nothing has changed, partly because the tech industry has been so adept at shifting blame. If that continues, then the monopolists will do what they please and everyone will suffer what they must,
In other words, there needs to be an ability to provide services using paper rather than digital solutions. The real danger is that we all forget how to live and work in a pre-digital environment,
This outage caused untold financial and emo- tional stress to thousands of people in the UK
But Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy the PC Agency, told The Sunday Times of the CAA statement We recognise the disruption this problem has caused for businesses and in the daily routines of many individuals
In a statement issue on Saturday, Microsoft said We currently estimate that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines,
Microsoft’s complex web of licensing restrictions prevents customers, particularly its existing on-premises enterprise clients, from choosing any other cloud provider at the time of migration into the cloud and ultimately locks those customers into its Azure ecosystem,
Google said in its complaint All too often these days, a single glitch results in a system-wide outage, affecting industries from healthcare and airlines to banks and auto-dealers. Millions of people and businesses pay the price. These incidents reveal how concentration can create fragile systems.”
As the blue screen of death appeared at airports the world over, the US Federal Trade Commission chair, Lina Khan, tweeted Their IT stack may include just a single provider for operating system, cloud, productivity, email, chat, collaboration, video conferencing, browser, identity, generative AI and increasingly security as well,
a CrowdStrike vice-president, Drew Bagley, said We know that a lot of the flights have been cancelled or delayed, ours was at 11 o’clock this morning,
What we’ve seen (Friday) morning is that there were a few delays and cancellations initially, and some airlines have continued to cancel flights,
We’ve seen some delays and some cancellations here at Halifax Stanfield over the course of the day,
says airport spokesperson Tiffany Chase