Sunday, December 15, 2024

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CrowdStrike Offers Glimpse of Potential Cyber Apocalypse

by Julio Rivera, American Thinker:

Cyberattacks have truly become the digital equivalent of natural disasters — sudden, catastrophic, and terrifyingly inevitable. The recentĀ CrowdStrike update debacle, which triggered a global meltdown affecting multiple critical sectors, was a glaring example of this modern reality.

Imagine hospitals unable to access patient records, emergency services offline, airports grounded, and banks in utter disarray. This isn’t the plot of a dystopian novel but the grim reality faced over the weekend by the world following the compromised CrowdStrike update. Reports on the ground detailed a scene of unprecedented chaos that unfolded as critical sectors went dark.