Planes have been grounded and TV broadcasters have gone offline as businesses worldwide grapple with an ongoing major IT outage.
Earlier on Friday, cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike experienced a major disruption, the company told NBC, following an issue with its latest tech update. The company is currently rolling up said update globally.
CNBC’s Dan Murphy with the latest.
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Maybe companies will realise that when it comes to software, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Don’t do automatic updates, period, the only updates people need are RELEVANT security patches and they should be installed manually, one at a time so you know what was to blame if something breaks