MONTREAL — Airports, hospitals and police services across Canada continued their gradual return to normal operations on Saturday as they recovered from a global technology outage caused by a defective update to computers using Microsoft Windows.
And as systems around the world continued to come back online, one security expert warned Canadians can expect more disruptions down the road unless industry practices change.
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said Friday’s glitch felt round the world occurred when it deployed a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows, adding the resulting outage was not a security incident or cyberattack.
Microsoft released a statement on its official blog on Saturday revealing the
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