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Take Friday’s IT Nightmare as a Warning of What a Cyberattack Could Do

The global Microsoft computer outage initiated by a faulty CrowdStrike security update gave us a taste of what actual cyberwarfare could do.

Starting soon after midnight New York time, the glitched update brought the “blue screen of death” to PCs across the world.

That shut down or crippled airports, hospitals, stock exchanges, banks and media from Europe to America and on to Australia and India — as well as government agencies including the Homeland Security Department and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Read the rest of the story at New York Post.

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