Travel, banking and businesses hit after software bug causes worldwide IT chaos
How could Crowdstrike's update do so much damage?
Joe Tidy
Cyber correspondent
There are suggestions, from the wording of the Crowdstrike CEO, that this dodgy overnight update was supposed to be small.
A "content update" is how it was described. So, it wasn’t a major refresh of the cyber security software. It could have been something as innocuous as the changing of a font or logo on the software design.
That would potentially explain why the software wasn’t as rigorously checked in the same way a major update would have been. And how it sailed through to all computers without being blocked.
Major IT outages have hit industries across the world; almost 1,400 flights are cancelled and banking, healthcare and shops affected
Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike says a "defect" in one of its software updates hit Windows operating systems
A fix has been deployed, the company says, but admits it "could be some time" before systems are fully back up and running
The majority of GP surgeries in England are experiencing issues, the NHS says, with trains, shops and pharmacies in the UK also hit
Highly infectious poliovirus found in Gaza sewage samples
Gaza ministry warns thousands of people displaced by the Israel-Gaza war are at risk of contracting the disease which can cause deformities and paralysis
The poliovirus has been found in sewage samples from Gaza putting thousands of people living in crowded displaced persons’ camps at risk of contracting the highly infectious disease that can cause deformities and paralysis.
The Gaza ministry said tests carried out with the UN children’s agency, Unicef, “showed the presence of poliovirus” in the territory that has endured a devastating Israeli military offensive since the 7 October Hamas attacks.
Giorgia Meloni height jibe costs Italian journalist €5,000
Giulia Cortese was convicted of defamation over two tweets about the Italian prime minister that a court said amounted to "body shaming."
An Italian court in Milan on Thursday ordered a journalist to pay €5,000 ($5,450) in damages to Giorgia Meloni for "body shaming" the prime minister on social media.
The Milan court also gave Giulia Cortese a suspended fine of €1,200 over another post on X, formerly Twitter, about Meloni's height.
"Italy's government has a serious problem with freedom of expression and journalistic dissent," Cortese said in reaction to the sentence.
Three die in fresh Bangladesh student protests amid telecoms disruptions
Japanese police failed to disclose 5 sex crime cases linked to U.S. troops
Police said Thursday they did not disclose five cases sent to prosecutors of suspected sexual assault involving people related to the U.S. military in Japan in three prefectures since 2021, after revelations of unreported cases in Okinawa last month triggered a public outcry.
The three prefectures are Aomori, Kanagawa and Yamaguchi, all of which host U.S. military facilities, although the bulk of bases exclusively used by U.S. forces in Japan are located in Okinawa, which was under U.S. administration until 1972.
The prefectural police of Kanagawa said they did not make an announcement in 2022 about a U.S. military serviceperson referred to prosecutors on suspicion of sexually assaulting and injuring a woman.
ICJ agrees to all arguments brought against Israel’s occupation
The president of the International Court of Justice has said basically all the arguments that were brought forward by 52 states and international organisations during the hearings were valid.
The chief justice called them one by one, including displacement, exploitation, and the settler policies that he was really critical about. He said all these policies are violating international laws, including the Geneva Convention and the UN Charter.
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