Onjuly 19th, a bug infested update was sent to millions of computers running Microsoft Windows Around The World 7 crashing the systems of organisations from banking, to healthca re, and airlines. According to one estimate the Disaster Cost top us firms more than 5 Billion. Microsoft has announced changes to how it interacts with third Party Security firms. Our Technology Editor Zoe Kleinman looks at the effects of the outage. Thousands of flights grounded. Doctors appointments cancelled. Tv channels falling off air. The It Outage felt Around The World injuly has been described as the worst cyber event in history. Microsoft said around 8. 5 million computers Around The World were disabled after a cyber Security Company called crowdstrike sent out a corrupted Software Update to its nearly 2a,000 customers, many of them huge companies we rely on in our everyday lives. Look atjensen. Are we going to disney . Were going to disneyland right now. Jo and her children were among the thousands a
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