22 Jul 2024

The Panel with Sarah Sparks and Liam Hehir (Part 2)

From The Panel, 6:30 pm on 22 July 2024

Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Sarah Sparks and Liam Hehir look at the global IT outage with renowned cybersecurity expert David Tuffley, and are all these road cones really necessary or has health and safety gone too far?

This photograph shows screens displaying logos of "CrowdStrike" cybersecurity technology company in Munich on July 19, 2024, amid massive global IT outage. Airlines, banks, TV channels and other business across the globe were scrambling to deal with one of the biggest IT crashes in recent years on July 19, 2024, caused by an update to an antivirus program. (Photo by Michaela STACHE / AFP)

Photo: AFP/Michaela Stache