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House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global IT outage
A congressional committee on Monday called on the chief executive of the security company whose botched update triggered Friday’s sprawling computer outage to testify, according to a letter shared exclusively with The Washington Post, deepening lawmakers’ scrutiny of the incident. Republican leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee demanded that CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz commit …
Global tech outage reveals our digital dependency
Imagine a day when everything goes haywire. That was Friday. It was not quite a global catastrophe, since it was mostly just a lot of devices, gadgets, computers and machines failing to work right. But it was revelatory — and ominous. In today’s world, a single bad piece of software can wreak havoc on a …
Widespread tech outage disrupts essential services, highlights digital dependence
JACKSON, Tenn. — A global software outage has affected many essential services across the U.S. We visited the Tennessee Department of Transportation where they’re having issues processing transactions due to a global outage that not only affects them, but other driver services across the entire nation, and also airlines, doctors offices and even various stock …
System outage hits house sales and payments across UK and Europe
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financial services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. House purchases and major UK and European payments were disrupted on Thursday after an outage at the Swift international network that lasted for several hours. Payments via the Bank of England’s Chaps service, which is …