Major IT outage brings businesses around the world to a standstill – expert explains what happened and why
ph. AAPPP / Shutterstock Alan Woodward, University of Surrey A major IT outage has hit businesses across the world, grounding planes as well as affecting banks and the healthcare sector. George Kurtz, CEO of IT security firm Crowdstrike, said it had traced the issue to a “defect found in a single content update”