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By Karen Howie (Head of Digital Learning Applications and Media in Information Services)
 
Month: <span>July 2024</span>

Month: July 2024

dlam-feed, Uncategorised

What can a global IT outage teach us as a society?

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On the 19th of July (past Friday) we had a global IT outage which impacted hospitals, trains, air travel, supermarkets and many other businesses.  It seems like it was caused by a small/inconspicuous update to a bit of anti-virus software for Windows operating systems which seemed to ‘break’ Windows.  Although …

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