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The cause of the CrowdStrike mess has been revealed by the company, together with the steps it has taken to ensure nothing similar can happen again. The company is facing a deluge of lawsuits over the estimated $5B worth of financial losses incurred by its clients, but the small print in its contract may protect it … A quick recap on the outageA huge mistake by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike last month caused a global IT outage on a massive scale, with airlines, banks, health services, and more affected – including some 911 centers. Airlines were forced to ground flights, broadcasters...

An Albemarle County man will serve two years behind bars for trying to use the Internet to lure strangers into having sex with his unsuspecting ex-wife because he was angry at her. Thirty-six-year-old Anthony Lee Napier disguised himself as his former wife in 2001 when he gave out her address and telephone number in a chat room. Napier had warned men that she would play dumb but that she really wanted to have sex with them. The case highlighted the difficulty in prosecuting cybercrimes. Prosecutors had no sentencing guidelines, so they asked the judge for a two-year term based on...