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It happened during Covid — and now it appears to be happening again: A failure in the interconnected web that constitutes the global supply chain threatens to disrupt daily commerce for an indefinite period. It was still not known Friday morning how long it would take to address the issue, which cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike attributed to an improperly executed update on Microsoft systems.
” Ironically, high-profile examples of companies not affected by the outage have previously faced their own issues because they weren't using state of the art technology. Notably, Southwest and Frontier airlines appeared to be the only large U.S. air carriers operating without incident Friday. Two years ago, Southwest's entire system shut down as a result of its reliance on an antiquated scheduling system.
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