GPs couldn't treat patients, people were stranded as planes couldn't get off the ground, and small businesses lost much-needed sales.

Two months on from the global IT outage on 19 July, its full impact is only now becoming apparent.

A rogue software update by the US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike crippled up to eight and half million computers using Microsoft systems around the world.

Adam Meyers - a senior executive at CrowdStrike - will testify at the US Congress on Tuesday.

He will speak of being "deeply sorry" about what happened, and his company's determination to "prevent it from happening again."

Eine Woche nachdem Hacker die Onlineauftritte von ÖVP, SPÖ und KPÖ lahmgelegt haben, hat es heute erneut DDoS-Attacken auf Parteiseiten gegeben. Diesmal waren Bundes- und Landesorganisationen von ÖVP und NEOS betroffen, wie die Parteien auf APA-Anfrage bestätigten. Bei NEOS war etwa die Hälfte der Seiten down.