Summary
- Experts are warning of a risk of more disruption as cyber-criminals seek to take advantage of Friday's global IT outage
- The boss of CrowdStrike, the cyber-security firm responsible, warned of "bad actors" that "will try to exploit events like this"
- George Kurtz also encouraged CrowdStrike customers "to remain vigilant"
- Cyber agencies in the UK and Australia are urging people to be vigilant to fake emails, calls and websites that pretend to be official
- Thousands of flights were cancelled and banking, healthcare and payment systems were affected by the mass outage
- Although many airports say their IT systems are working again, travellers continue to face disruption as airlines try to recover from the outage's impact
Live Reporting
How can I stay safe online? Key tips to avoid scams
Tom Gerken
Technology reporter
With many of the outages being resolved, the big development today has really been around security agencies, who are each warning of an increase in scams relating to CrowdStrike.
随着许多中断问题的解决，今天的重大进展实际上集中在各安全机构上，他们纷纷警告称，与 CrowdStrike 相关的诈骗活动正在增加。
You may be wondering what you need to do.
你可能会想你需要做什么呢？
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and others are specifically warning about phishing attacks – where scammers try to trick people into handing over their financial details.
国际网络安全中心和其他的机构特别警告网络有关于钓鱼攻击——诈骗人员尝试通过这种方式获取他们的财务信息。
Once someone pays up, the scammers either vanish without a trace, or will try to scam them out of more money through follow-up messages.
当一个人付款后诈骗者要么消失的无影无踪，或者尝通过后续的信息欺骗更多的钱。
These sorts of scams have been around for decades and being aware of it them important, but prevention is better than intervention.
这种诈骗已经存在了数十年了，注意到他们是很重要的，但是预防比干预要更好。
The NCSC advises people to think about the information they share online – because cyber criminals will grab all the info they can get to make their scams more convincing – and the simplest thing you can do with the biggest impact is to review the privacy settings on your social media accounts.
NCSC建议人们思考一下他们在网络上分享的东西，因为网络犯罪将会获取一切信息使得他们的诈骗能够更加的有说服力——最简单的你能做的最有效的事情是去重新审视你的社交账号隐私设置。