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The mass global IT outage has exposed the vulnerability of modern daily life when technology fails.
The chaos, which impacted businesses and services worldwide, from GP appointments and flights to news broadcasts and online payments, is thought to have been triggered by a security software update rather than any kind of deliberate cyber attack by a hostile state of malicious individuals.
However, given the scale of the disruption, this disaster demonstrates just how powerful cyber and software could be if used as a weapon.
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It is why any actual act of war by one state against another would always be expected to include a cyber dimension, with the ability to take the frontline into people’s homes, offices, or anywhere that there is a computer.
Just imagine having to deal with being knocked offline and unable to receive communications, make payments, or travel as some kind of physical, real-world military strike was taking place.
Ukrainian citizens have to endure Russian cyber attacks – a tactic that ramped up in the weeks before the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
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The fact Friday’s global disruption was not a malicious cyber hack will be slim comfort given the impact that even…
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