Major ticketing website Ticketek shut down on Monday and into Tuesday,leaving fans unable to access tickets and promoters scrambling for alternatives.
The issue affecting Australian Border Force systems led to significant disruptions for passengers.
Telecommunications providers have been urged to fix the “trust deficit” with their customers,who often experience poor service and delayed responses.
The outage caused chaos for thousands of Australian businesses and their accounting teams.
Rumours of the recent CrowdStrike outage hitting smart homes may have been exaggerated,but with more internet-connected devices in our home it’s a scenario worth exploring.
The CrowdStrike outage reminded me and the rest of the developed world of how reliant we are on a few big companies to keep the show on the road.
Crippling tech meltdowns like CrowdStrike are getting more common and more severe. Will you be ready for the next one? Are you keeping spare cash?
Microsoft has estimated a software update by cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike disabled 8.5 million devices around the world,crippling airport check-ins,supermarkets and emergency information services.
New cyber threats against software networks appear every hour and fixes are needed just as often. They can and will go wrong.
Australia’s cyber security minister says it’s “absolutely possible” that Friday’s IT outage was the largest in history,as banks,airports and retailers come back online.
A widespread CrowdStrike outage hit the nation’s supermarkets,banks,telecommunications companies and other businesses on Friday afternoon.