Western Sanctions, Tech Self-Sufficiency Helped Russia & China Dodge CrowdStrike Falcon Outage?

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Western Sanctions, Tech Self-Sufficiency Helped Russia & China Dodge CrowdStrike Falcon Outage? Russia’s tech infrastructure emerged unscathed by the global IT outage that disrupted aviation, banking and other businesses world over. Russian officials said on July 19 that the country’s airlines and banks did not appear to have been impacted by the outage.The Kremlin said it was spared largely due to measures taken by Moscow to counter Western sanctions imposed on Russia.Windows 10 users around the world, including airports, banks and broadcasters, suffered serious failures on July 19. The meltdown was triggered by a recent update of the US-based CrowdStrike antivirus platform. Problems were reported in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India, Germany, Spain, the US.