Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist with well over a decade’s experience covering the issues that matter to users, businesses and governments. O’Flaherty covers Apple iOS security and privacy updates, as well as breaking news such as the CrowdStrike outage that crashed Windows machines around the world. In addition to Forbes, her work can be found in Wired, The Guardian, The Observer, The Times and The Economist. Follow O’Flaherty on Forbes and X for continuing coverage of Apple’s iOS and iPhone, the latest outages and cyber-attacks and privacy stories including data misuse by the big tech firms.