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  Meta content moderation vendors hit by global cyber outage

  The social media giant experienced a SEV1 as a result of the disruptions, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, using Meta's term for a "code red"-style alert involving high-stakes problems with its systems that require urgent attention.

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    Global tech outage eases after widespread disruption, new focus seen on risks

  • Australia warns of malicious websites after cyber outage

    ASD issued a warning following CrowdStrike's global outage on Friday, affecting banks, airlines. Commonwealth Bank faced transfer issues, Qantas and Sydney airport had delays. Prime Minister Albanese assured no critical damage. Cyber Security Minister Clare O'Neil warned of scams. ASD advised using official CrowdStrike channels. CrowdStrike, valued at $83 billion, has 30,000 subscribers.

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    CrowdStrike: All you need to know about cybersecurity giant behind global IT outage

    CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company behind a massive global IT outage, is the leader in its sector, known for building software defenses for the cloud computing age and exposing Russian and North Korean threats. But cloud computing giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google provide their own cybersecurity software and are also rivals.

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    ETtech Explainer: How a faulty Microsoft Windows update by CrowdStrike led to havoc