{"id":12613,"date":"2023-12-13T09:37:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T08:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/13\/uk-at-high-risk-of-catastrophic-ransomware-attack-report-says\/"},"modified":"2023-12-13T09:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T08:37:51","slug":"uk-at-high-risk-of-catastrophic-ransomware-attack-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/13\/uk-at-high-risk-of-catastrophic-ransomware-attack-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"UK at high risk of \u2018catastrophic ransomware attack\u2019, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentary committee says Britain is vulnerable because of poor planning and lack of investment<\/p>\n<p>The UK government is at high risk of a \u201ccatastrophic ransomware attack\u201d that could \u201cbring the country to a standstill\u201d because of poor planning and a lack of investment, a parliamentary committee has warned.<\/p>\n<p>In a damning report, the joint committee on the national security strategy warned that the UK could face a crippling cyber-attack on its critical national infrastructure (CNI) at any moment. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) describes the CNI as national assets that are essential for the functioning of society, including<strong> <\/strong>energy supply, water supply, transportation, health and telecommunications.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/dec\/13\/uk-at-high-risk-of-catastrophic-ransomware-attack-report-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f33b80766ae6874f05f097a74ebc9b1ddf249fba\/0_0_4803_2882\/master\/4803.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0eb950cea2fa29bae6157a1ef79290dc\" title=\"UK at high risk of \u2018catastrophic ransomware attack\u2019, report says\" \/>Parliamentary committee says Britain is vulnerable because of poor planning and lack of investment<br \/>\nThe UK government is at high risk of a \u201ccatastrophic ransomware attack\u201d that could \u201cbring the country to a standstill\u201d because of poor planning and a lack of investment, a parliamentary committee has warned.<br \/>\nIn a damning report, the joint committee on the national security strategy warned that the UK could face a crippling cyber-attack on its critical national infrastructure (CNI) at any moment. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) describes the CNI as national assets that are essential for the functioning of society, including energy supply, water supply, transportation, health and telecommunications. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentary committee says Britain is vulnerable because of poor planning and lack of investment The UK government is at high risk of a \u201ccatastrophic ransomware attack\u201d that could \u201cbring the country to a standstill\u201d because of poor planning and a lack of investment, a parliamentary committee has warned. In a damning report, the joint committee &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/13\/uk-at-high-risk-of-catastrophic-ransomware-attack-report-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK at high risk of \u2018catastrophic ransomware attack\u2019, report says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}