Global IT outage should be a wake-up call for governments, industry and individuals

The mass global IT outage has exposed the vulnerability of modern daily life when technology fails. The chaos, which impacted businesses and services worldwide, from GP appointments and flights to news broadcasts and online payments, is thought to have been triggered by a security software update rather than any kind of deliberate cyber attack by a hostile state of malicious individuals.

Ukrainian citizens have to endure Russian cyber attacks - a tactic that ramped up in the weeks before the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. The fact Friday's global disruption was not a malicious cyber hack will be slim comfort given the impact that even just a mistaken software glitch has had across continents.

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