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CrowdStrike says more than 97% of Windows sensors are back online
CrowdStrike said that nearly all Microsoft Windows sensors are operational again after a faulty update by the cybersecurity company crippled computer systems across the world.
More than 97% of Windows sensors were online as of Wednesday evening, CrowdStrike said in an update posted on its website. The systems are nearly fully restored after the company’s July 19 software update crashed millions of Windows-based devices and froze corporate networks.
Microsoft estimates the error took down 8.5 million Windows devices. The snafu will cost Fortune 500 companies more than $5 billion in losses, according to an estimate from Parametrix, an insurance services company.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz apologized for the outage in a LinkedIn post Thursday, assuring customers that the company was doing its best to fully restore computer systems.
“I am deeply sorry for the disruption this outage has caused and personally apologize to everyone impacted. While I can’t promise perfection, I can promise a response that is focused, effective, and with a sense of urgency,” he wrote.
CrowdStrike this week blamed the failure involving its Falcon security platform on a bug in a program designed to identify problems before customers are prompted to update their software. The resulted in “problematic content data” being sent to clients, CrowdStrike said on its website.
The global outage highlights the fragility of interconnected IT systems, according to experts. Consulting firm McKinsey & Company said the outage draws attention to “the trade-offs IT organizations must make between updating their environments to protect against cyberattacks versus managing changes that can introduce instability.”
Delta Air Lines, which was forced to cancel thousands of flights in the days after the outage, said Thursday that operations have returned to normal.
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Husband of Russia’s richest woman arrested for murder after deadly shootout at offices of retail giant Wildberries
The estranged husband of Russia’s richest woman and CEO of retail giant Wildberries was arrested Thursday and charged with several crimes including murder, a day after a deadly armed raid at the company’s central Moscow offices.
Billionaire Tatyana Bakalchuk released a tearful message a day earlier, saying her husband Vladislav Bakalchuk, whom she is currently divorcing, led an armed raid into the Wildberries offices.
Vladislav Bakalchuk’s lawyers said in a message on his social media page that he was “detained for 48 hours” and charged with murder, attempted murder, assault of a law enforcement officer and vigilantism.
Two people, including a security guard, were killed in the shooting at the offices, which lie a few streets away from the Kremlin.
The incident came weeks after the company finalized a merger deal that Vladislav criticized and that strongman Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov vowed to stop.
Vladislav’s lawyers said he was on his way to a “pre-agreed meeting to settle a corporate conflict.” Vladislav alleges that it was staff at the office who fired the first shots, the Reuters news agency reported.
But Bakalchuk called her husband’s claims “absurd” and said “no one agreed to any negotiations.”
“Vladislav, what are you doing? How are you going to look in the eyes of your parents and our children?”
Wildberries is Russia’s largest online retailer. Tatyana Bakalchuk founded the company in 2004, growing it from an online clothes reseller into a major marketplace for countless other products, Reuters reported.
According to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index in 2021, she was the 40th richest woman in the world and the first self-made woman billionaire out of Russia.
Tatyana Bakalchuk is the majority oner of the company, while her estranged husband holds a one-percent stake.
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Teamsters union doesn’t endorse a presidential candidate for the first time since 1996
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