Take Friday’s IT nightmare as a warning of what a cyberattack could do
Favicon 
www.allsides.com

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.