{"id":15195,"date":"2024-07-19T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T13:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/is-the-uk-resilient-enough-to-withstand-a-major-cyber-attack\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T13:37:14","slug":"is-the-uk-resilient-enough-to-withstand-a-major-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/is-the-uk-resilient-enough-to-withstand-a-major-cyber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the UK resilient enough to withstand a major cyber-attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft\u2019s IT outage reveals the fragility of our software systems and the risks of a more serious technology collapse<\/p>\n

\u2022 Global Microsoft IT outage: latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n

Planes grounded, trains delayed, television stations off air, hospital appointments cancelled, electronic payments halted. No, it wasn\u2019t the start of a massive cyber-attack from Russia, or the backdrop to a Hollywood blockbuster, but an IT upgrade that unexpectedly went disastrously wrong.<\/p>\n

That it had such widespread effects is to some extent testament to the ubiquity of Microsoft\u2019s Windows\u2019 operating system, a well-known global dependency, and more particularly to a faulty software update pushed out by the security and anti-virus company CrowdStrike to its widely used Falcon software system.<\/p>\n

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\nMicrosoft\u2019s IT outage reveals the fragility of our software systems and the risks of a more serious technology collapse
\n\u2022 Global Microsoft IT outage: latest updates
\nPlanes grounded, trains delayed, television stations off air, hospital appointments cancelled, electronic payments halted. No, it wasn\u2019t the start of a massive cyber-attack from Russia, or the backdrop to a Hollywood blockbuster, but an IT upgrade that unexpectedly went disastrously wrong.
\nThat it had such widespread effects is to some extent testament to the ubiquity of Microsoft\u2019s Windows\u2019 operating system, a well-known global dependency, and more particularly to a faulty software update pushed out by the security and anti-virus company CrowdStrike to its widely used Falcon software system. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft\u2019s IT outage reveals the fragility of our software systems and the risks of a more serious technology collapse \u2022 Global Microsoft IT outage: latest updates Planes grounded, trains delayed, television stations off air, hospital appointments cancelled, electronic payments halted. No, it wasn\u2019t the start of a massive cyber-attack from Russia, or the backdrop to …<\/p>\n

Is the UK resilient enough to withstand a major cyber-attack?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}