Southern California Recovering From Massive Tech Outage
Published on July 20, 2024
Southern California airports, ports, government agencies, and private businesses were recovering on July 20 from a massive global technology outage caused by a botched software update by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike that sparked what experts said was the “largest IT outage in history.” IT experts warned that it could take weeks for the worldwide global tech infrastructure to fully recover after Friday’s failed software update disrupted computer systems all over the world. “In some cases, the fix may be applied very quickly,” Adam Leon Smith of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT in England told reporters. “But if computers have reacted in a way that means they’re getting into blue screens … that could take days and weeks.”...