In the worst-case scenarios that the Biden administration has quietly simulated over the past year or so, Russian hackers working on behalf of Vladimir V. Putin bring down hospital systems across the United States...none of those grim situations caused Friday's national digital meltdown...purely human error, a few bad keystrokes that demonstrated the fragility of a vast set of interconnected networks.
Yet as the blue screen of death popped up from the operating rooms of Massachusetts General Hospital to the airline management systems that keep planes flying, America got another reminder of the halting progress of cyber resilience...a flawed update to a trusted tool CrowdStrike's software was the cause of the problem, not the savior.
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