Evening Edition: Why Today's Global Outage Should Be A Warning To The World

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The largest IT outage in history happened on Friday morning, after a faulty software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike left Microsoft computers across the country heavily disrupted. Airports were forced to ground flights, with major businesses, banks, hospitals, and offices putting their essential work on hold as Microsoft rushed to resolve the widespread issue. Michael Balboni, a former New York Homeland Security Advisor and the Managing Director of RedLand Strategies joins FOX's Eben Brown to discuss how a software malfunction like this may give terrorists and bad actors inspiration about attacking vulnerabilities in the US’s cyber infrastructure. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.9	Friday, July 19th, 2024, I'm Eben Brown. An errant software update to supposedly
0:30.4	increase cyber security causes global outages impacting everything. increasingly an idea? The bad guys are looking at every single way that they can exploit and the concern is whether
0:47.3	or not this incident could be re-engineered and utilized as an attack in the future.
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1:01.0	Kennedy saves the world.
1:02.0	It is five days a week every week.
1:04.3	Download and listen at Fox News Podcast.com or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast. edition. updating software, whether it's your phone's operating system, favorite apps, your home computer,
1:24.8	including the software suite managing the money from your side gig.
1:28.4	But what happens if the security update itself causes a problem? That happened across the planet this morning
1:34.4	as an update from security software giant crowd strike intended for clients
1:38.7	using Microsoft Windows-based computers rendered everything inoperable in many parts of the world.
1:45.0	Airplanes were grounded, payments ceased processing, orders when unfulfilled or shipped,
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