How CrowdStrike’s outage became Australia’s big cyberattack rehearsal

Qantas chairman John Mullen got the “blue screen of death” while Telstra’s cyber chief Narelle Devine was in the pool sipping cocktails when she got the call that something was seriously wrong.

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Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login While she floated in a swimming pool sipping a cocktail, enjoying the rare feeling of getting away from it all, Telstra cybersecurity chief Narelle Devine’s phone began an incessant beeping – something was going seriously wrong at work. Qantas chairman John Mullen was tapping away on his laptop as the end of the working week approached when he was confronted with the dreaded “blue screen of death”.

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