{"id":57351,"date":"2017-06-27T13:32:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T18:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=57351"},"modified":"2017-06-27T13:32:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T18:32:43","slug":"england-hit-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/england-hit-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Attacks are Hitting England"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>England Targeted Victim of Cyber Attacks<\/h2>\n<h4>British Parliament Targeted in &#8220;Determined&#8221; Cyber Attack<\/h4>\n<p>The British parliament was the recent victim of a &#8220;sustained and determined&#8221; cyber attack. \u00a0The attack was targeting weak email passwords. \u00a0The parliament was able to isolate the infection and took precautionary measures to mitigate the spread. \u00a0They decided by temporarily disabling remote access, the cyber attack&#8217;s impact would be minimized. \u00a0By doing so, some parliament members were temporarily unable to access their data.<\/p>\n<p>Liam Fox, minister of international trade, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/2017\/06\/24\/technology\/24reuters-britain-politics-cyber.html\">reported <\/a>to the New York Times,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen reports in the last few days of even cabinet ministers&#8217; 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