A once-in-a-blue-moon cyber fiasco recently halted key operations around the world, including within major sectors across Canada, when an awry Crowdstrike update rendered nearly 10 million Microsoft devices into a state of uselessness which some dubbed “the blue screen of death.”
In Canada, services at airports, hospitals, and police stations were among those impacted by sudden tech disruption. For example, “the vast majority of arrivals and departures between Canada and the U.S. at airports in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Montreal were postponed or called off,” reported the National Post. Within a day, however, “regular operations had been restored” at many of the affected organizations.
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