THE FREE PRESS JOURNAL Vol. 67 No. 250 | SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2024 | 35 Pages | `5 & for Pune `6 only www.freepressjournal.in EDITIONS: MUMBAI INDORE PUNE Reg.No MCS/048/2021-23; RNI No. 1541/1957 M.p.c.s office Mumbai. PIN 400001 BHOPAL NASHIK KONKAN E-paper GAMES NATION Ruckus in Karnataka Assembly as CM says he will probe all scams during BJP regimes Member: Audit Bureau of Circulation (Jan to Dec 2023) Cinema Check out our verdict on films and OTT releases Indian women register a crushing 7-wicket victory over Pakistan in Asia Cup Edit It’s better to scrap the bill on reservation MICROSOFT’S MACRO VIRUS Tech outage disrupts flights, banks, media outlets; world has no ‘Plan B’ for when chips are down Associated Press FRANKFURT/LONDON NEW YORK/SYDNEY A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air on Friday in a massive disruption that affected companies and services around the world and highlighted dependence on software from a handful of providers. Cyber security firm CrowdStrike said that the issue behind the outage was not a security incident or cyber attack -- and that a fix was on the way. The company said the problem occurred when it deployed a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows. But hours after the problem was first detected, the disarray continued -- and escalated. Long lines formed at airports in the US, Europe and Asia as airlines lost access to check-in and booking services at a time when many travellers are heading on summer vacations. News outlets in Australia -- where telecommunications were severely affected -- were pushed off air for hours. Hospitals and doctor's offices had problems with their appointment systems, while banks in South Africa and New Zealand reported outages in their payment system or websites and apps. At Hong Kong's airport, Yvonne Lee, 24, said she found her flight to Phuket in Thailand was postponed to Saturday only when she arrived at the airport. Her already short fiveday trip would now have to be further shortened, she said. Some athletes and spectators descending on Paris ahead of the Olympics were delayed as was the arrival of their uniforms and accreditations, but Games organisers said disruptions were limited and didn't affect ticketing or the torch relay. HOSPITALS SURGERIES BANKS CAFES & SHOPS PAYMENT APPS TAXIS BETTING WEBSITES For how long Experts fear the massive Microsoft outage which sparked chaos around the world will continue to impact services for days. It was described by IT bosses as a 'digital pandemic affecting millions' with others fearing the disruption will last long into the weekend. 4Contd on | nation You can search for the error WHAT HAPPENED I t was all due to a security update to Falcon, a type of antivirus software that protects Microsoft Windows devices from cyber attacks. The company behind Falcon is CrowdStrike. This the rogue app that brought down computers across the world; it is ironically aimed at protecting Microsoft Windows devices from hacking and checks inter- Dawood terrorist in ‘individual capacity’ Urvi Mahajani Fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar has been declared as a terrorist in ‘individual capacity’, and therefore, any association with him on the pretext that a person belongs to D-gang / Dawood gang will not attract the provisions ‘Association with him will not attract offence of being member of a terrorist gang or organisation under UAPA’ of Section 20, which prescribes punishment for being the member of a terrorist gang or organisation, the Bombay High Court has said. The high court made the observation while granting bail to two persons — Parvez Vaid and Faiz Bhiwandiwala — who were arrested by the Anti-Ter- UPSC cracks down, books Puja for fraud Debarred from future exams and selections FPJ News Service NEW DELHI The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Friday cracked down on probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar by initiating a series of actions, including registration of a police case, against her for fraudulently availing attempts in the civil services examination by faking her identity. The commission also issued a show cause notice for cancellation of her candidature of the civil services examination-2022 rorism Squad (ATS) in August 2022 for allegedly being a member of the D-Gang and were booked under various sections of the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act [UAPA] and the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act [NDPS]. 4Contd on | nation 7 additional HC judges Staff Reporter MUMBAI and debarment from future examinations and selections. The commission filed a complaint with the Delhi Police's crime branch against Khedkar. Following this, police registered a case under relevant provisions of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Information Technology Act and under the disabilities law to probe charges of forgery, cheating and misuse of disability quota in securing her candidature in the civil services. 4Contd on | nation She fraudulently availed examination attempts beyond permissible limit by faking her identity by way of change of her own name, her father's and mother's name, her photograph/ signature, her email ID, mobile number and address… The Central government on Friday notified the appointment of seven additional judges of Bombay High Court as permanent judges. Two other additional judges have be given a fresh term of one year as additional judges with effect from October 7. A tweet to this effect was posted by Union Minister of State with independent charge of the Law and Justice Ministry Arjun Ram Meghwal. The judges who have been recommended for permanent appointment are: Justices SG Chapalgaonkar, MM Sathaye, Neela Kedar Gokhale, YG Khobragade, MW Chandwani, AS Waghwase and RM Joshi. 4Contd on | nation off-grid State poll panel silences trumpet Kalpesh Mhamunkar MUMBAI The state election commission has frozen the trumpet and ‘turha’ symbols, in what is considered a big relief for the NCP Sharad Chandra Pawar group. The party had made a request to the EC, seeking to restrain the use of these symbols, claiming that their party had lost several seats in the recent Lok Sabha elections because of these. Independent candidates cannot use these symbols in future elections. The secretary of the state election commission, Suresh Kakani, passed an AIRPORTS & FLIGHTS TRAIN SERVICES Your PC ran into a problem that it couldn’t handle, and now it needs to restart. MUMBAI WHAT WAS HIT order in this regard. After the recent Lok Sabha elections, NCP SP leaders had claimed that the voters of Maharashtra had become confused by the poll symbols of the NCP SP and an Independent candidate, which looked similar. The party also said that similar symbols had reduced their margins in multiple seats in the general elections. The Election Commission had allocated the ‘man blowing turha’, symbol to the Sharad Pawar faction, after the party split in July last year. Later, an election symbol named the ‘pipani’ (trumpet) was allocated to Independent candidates, which resembled the NCP SP election symbol. The party had claimed that they lost the Satara Lok Sabha seat due to this similarity in symbols, which had resulted in voter confusion. 4Contd on | nation net breaches in the globe's biggest companies. But, it is now responsible for perhaps the biggest IT outage the world has seen, reports Daily Mail. Computer analysts believe a badly-written code in the update triggered the digital pandemic and wrecked computer networks worldwide. 4Contd on | nation PAYROLL SYSTEMS FOOTBALL CLUBS STOCK EXCHANGES SUPER MARKETS TV CHANNELS Flight cancellations in metros AIRLINES ARE LOGGED OUT Dharmesh Thakkar MUMBAI The worldwide Microsoft outage disrupted airline operations in India as well, resulting in flight cancellations and long queues of passengers outside airports and at checkin counters. The flight cancellations were at Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad airports. Indigo, Vistara, Akasa, SpiceJet and Air India flights were affected, with over 200 flight cancellations, 192 by Indigo alone. Services like booking, check-in and boarding processes, including the issuance of boarding passes, were being carried out manually, which took longer than expected, leading to long queues at airports. Indigo, AI Express, Air Asia, Spicejet and Akasa were impacted and not able to access their airline check-in systems. ‘‘Boarding passes are being issued manually. But Mumbai Airport systems are not impacted,” said Mumbai Airport spokesperson 4Contd on | nation Market, banks: Minor hiccups he crashing of applications of the Microsoft operating system knocked out worldwide banks, stock exchanges, payment systems and emergency services. Top trading and brokerage houses, including Nuvama and Edelweiss, were among those impacted. However, Indian stock exchanges were not disrupted by the outage, with the NSE and BSE denying that trading was impacted. Indian banking and financial institutions, too, faced minor disruptions. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) made an assessment of the impact of the outage on its Regulated Entities and asserted the Indian financial sector in its domain remains insulated from the global outage. 4Contd on | nation T