Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say

Cash provides essential fallback when digital payments break down, Payment Choice Alliance points out

Microsoft IT outage: criminals seeking to take advantage of global outage, CrowdStrike warns – as it happened

Firm that deployed software update leading to the outage warns criminals are seeking to exploit the situation

The Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of monopolization

As the world recovers from the largest IT outage in history, it shows the danger of one point of failure in IT infrastructure

Air passengers warned of more delays after global Windows outage

Travellers advised to check with providers for ‘extra steps’, with at least 45 UK flights cancelled on Saturday

‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken?

For decades now, anyone who’s wanted to know everything about anything has asked Google. But is the platform losing its edge – and can we still trust it to tell us the truth?

Bad actors seizing on Microsoft IT outage to scam public, Clare O’Neil warns

Home affairs minister says small businesses should be cautious of emails from people posing as CrowdStrike or Microsoft

‘Computer says no’: what the papers say after IT outage causes global chaos

‘Digital pandemic’, ‘havoc’ and ‘meltdown’ were some of the most common phrases in UK headlines after botched CrowdStrike software update

Slow recovery from IT outage begins as experts warn of future risks

Fault in CrowdStrike caused airports, businesses and healthcare services to languish in ‘largest outage in history’

Microsoft IT outage: Australian airlines, banks and supermarkets begin return to normal operations

IT support staff need to implement the fix in person, one computer at a time, experts have said

Windows IT outage: CrowdStrike CEO ‘deeply sorry’ for global chaos caused by update and warns fix may take time to work – as it happened

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says fix has been issued to software update responsible – but impact of that will not be immediate

What is CrowdStrike, and how did it cause a global Windows outage?

Software made by US cybersecurity company was intended to protect against crashes and disruptions in vital systems – it ended up taking them down

Microsoft Windows IT outage: more than 2,000 flights canceled across US; Fedex and UPS report service delays – as it happened

Microsoft says cause of global chaos fixed; CrowdStrike CEO ‘deeply sorry’ but services may take days to recover as major disruptions unfold across US

US transportation, police and hospital systems stricken by global CrowdStrike IT outage

US wakes up to Microsoft system collapse from software update that has crippled world IT systems

Windows global IT outage: what we know so far

Outage linked to Windows operating system hits banks, airlines, rail services and supermarkets

‘Bedlam’ in UK as air and rail travel hit by global IT outage

More than 5,000 flights cancelled worldwide after problem affecting Microsoft Windows