GLOBAL OUTAGES:

▪️Edinburgh Airport warns passengers about failure of IT system

▪️UK largest railway operator Govia Thameslink Railway says registering disruptions, train cancellations possible

▪️Indian Airline Indigo says Microsoft outage affected its services, including booking, check-in, other services

▪️Hong Kong airport says airlines switch to manual check-in procedures

▪️Irish airline Ryanair warned customers about possible disruptions

▪️Australian government calls emergency meeting due to global IT outage, local media reports

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UPDATE:

▪️The Central Bank of Israel says its systems were affected by global technical failures

▪️The London Stock Exchange joins banks and airlines that announced a technical glitch

▪️British railway companies announced that they were suspending operations due to cyber outages

▪️Turkish Airlines warned of a global outage that caused serious problems with booking tickets and check-in

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🇷🇺 The global IT outage has not affected Russia yet

Domestic carriers continue to operate flights; no reported problems with check-ins or ticket purchase.

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❗️ Russian-made check-in system saves Russian airports from global IT outage

The global IT failure did not affect the operation of Domodedovo airport in Moscow, the press service told Sputnik.

The airport is ready to offer others a backup check-in system, a Russian-made "Astra.”

Russian airlines have long switched to the domestic check-in system, so the global failure did not affect them, Red Wings air company says.

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Sky News TV hosts reading lines from paper sheets

Back into 1970s?

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Boarding passes at Indian airports are being filled out manually due to a global IT outage.

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A witness to the incident published a video of the moment a drone hit a building in Tel Aviv.

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State propaganda and harassment explain restrained public reaction to US long-range missile deployment in Germany – former MEP 

Gunnar Beck, former European MP from AfD party, notes that there was no public discussion on the fateful decision to deploy US long-range missiles in Germany. 

“It’s a fait accompli,” Gunnar Beck told Sputnik. “All that talk of an imminent Russian threat to Europe, in my view, is just a pretext for justifying further military and financial assistance to Ukraine and… for intimidating the European population and forcing them to accept ever larger amounts of military spending.” 

The politician underscored that restrained public reaction comes from “relentless propaganda over Ukraine” for the last two and a half years.

"People who speak out against government policy are harassed, they may lose their jobs. If they post critical comments on the Internet, they may be sued. We have a real problem with freedom of speech and the rule of law now… It explains why there's been no significant public reaction. I think people are tired," Beck explained.

According to the Forsa opinion poll, 47% of Germans believe that the planned deployment of US missiles in Germany will increase the risk of a military confrontation between NATO and Russia. Only 17% of the surveyed think that it would boost German security.

“That's the propaganda situation we have in the EU, and that's perhaps why there's been no real public protest,” Beck laments. “There comes a point when most people submit and are simply weary… The Europeans are simply giving up on their own continent, and their governments will triumph and have their way because the Europeans are so afraid.”

In 1990, the Two Plus Four Agreement on the reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic stated that no foreign troops and nuclear weapons could be deployed on the territory of the latter.

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🇻🇳 General Secretary of Vietnam's Communist Party Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong passed away at 1:38 p.m. Friday at the 108 Military Central Hospital in Hanoi due to old age and severe illness.

The Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam is expected to issue a special notice on his state funeral.

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‘Domestic cybersecurity software’ has protected Russia’s IT infrastructure from Microsoft/Crowdstrike outage

Thanks to timely import substitution, in this case “precisely because airlines use Russian means of protection,” Russia has been able to dodge computer outage caused by a faulty code update to US cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike’s software, says Russian cybersecurity specialist Alexei Lukatskiy.

“If Russian airlines had been using Crowdstrike for protection, rather than domestic cybersecurity software, Russian airlines would be facing exactly the same problem…,” Lukatskiy told Sputnik.

Lukatskiy noted that Russian timely investments in homegrown cybersecurity tools alongside with “switching away from products by foreign vendors to Russian ones” was the right path and Friday’s outages thus confirm it.

Another important takeaway, according to Lukatskiy, lies in the modern world’s heavy dependence on information technology.

“IT has penetrated into a wide array of different areas, and the owners of companies working in critical industries must understand all the consequences and evaluate the unacceptable events...,” the expert stated.

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⚡️A court has sentenced WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in a high-security prison, a Sputnik correspondent reports

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Yemen's Armed Forces: Tel Aviv is no longer a safe place

The official spokesman of the Yemeni Armed Forces, General Yahya Saree, in his statement taking responsibility for the morning drone strike on Tel Aviv, declared: "The drone unit of the Yemeni Armed Forces attacked an important target in the occupied territory of 'Jaffa,' which Israel calls 'Tel Aviv.'"

Saree added that the operation was conducted using a radar-protected drone named "Jaffa" and successfully reached its predetermined targets.

He stated that the Yemeni Armed Forces now "declare the occupied area of 'Jaffa' as unsafe", marking it as one of the primary targets within Yemen's strike range, focusing their efforts on hitting deep within the enemy's territory.

The official spokesman of the Yemeni Armed Forces emphasized that Yemen has a bank of military and sensitive security targets "deep within occupied Palestine and will continue to target these in response to the enemy's daily crimes" against the residents of the Gaza Strip.

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