By Guy Birchall, Emel Akan and Jack Phillips What we know about the outages. A massive internet outage on July 19 caused IT issues for major global institutions, grounding flights, disrupting banks’ apps, knocking media outlets off the air, and even affecting supermarkets’ computer systems. The issue was caused by a defect in a Windows […]
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A cyber attack is an assault launched by cyber criminals using one or more computers against a single or multiple computers or networks. A cyber attack can maliciously disable computers, steal data, or use a breached computer as a launch point for other attacks.