Global tech outage: No known local impact yet
Today, the world woke up to an IT shutdown, which grounded flights, knocked banks offline, and took media outlets in Europe off air after a faulty software update disrupted flights, hospitals, and the banking system around the world. We spoke to Kyle Spencer, the executive director of the Uganda Internet Exchange Point, who said industry experts were yet to determine if there was an impact locally but warned that the outage is a sign that organizations must avoid being dependent on just a handful of providers. He added that the update issued by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which affected computers running Microsoft Windows, was not a security incident or cyberattack.