“I fear that until governments and the software industry come together and find ways to address some of these shortcomings, we are likely to see these types of failures again,” he said.
“If measures are taken to eliminate these shortcomings, they will most likely have to be taken in the United States, and there is little we can do about it,” the British expert explained. “So, until the structure of our technologies changes, we will have to learn to deal with these things rather than eliminate them.”
On Friday, “the most serious computer failure in history,” as the Daily Mail newspaper called it, caused global chaos: flights and trains were suspended in the United States, Europe and Australia, health services and banks were disrupted, shops closed and some television channels were disconnected. The cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike admitted responsibility for a bug that affected Microsoft 365 applications and operating systems. The American company said the outage was caused by “a flaw found in a single software update.”
