Britain’s parliament has been hit by a cyber attack aiming to crack weak email passwords, officials said on Saturday. It comes just a month after hackers crippled part of the country’s National Health Service using ransomware. The House of Commons said it was working with the National Cyber Security Centre to defend Westminster’s network and was confident it had protected all accounts and systems. As a precaution, it restricted remote access to the network, leaving some MPs and parliament staff locked out of their emails over the weekend. . Warning Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox said the attack was not a surprise and should serve as a warning to Britons. “We know that there are regular attacks by hackers attempting to get passwords. We’ve seen reports in the last few days of even Cabinet Ministers’ passwords being for sale online,” Fox said. “We know that our public services are attacked so it’s not at all surprising that there shoul...
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LONDON, June 24./ TASS /.Ten fire brigades are trying to extinguish the fire in the apartment of one of the houses to the north-east of central London.As a result of the incident one person was injured, he was hospitalized.This was reported on Saturday in the London Fire Brigade. According to her, the fire spread to the apartment on the third floor, covering also the roof of the building, which is located in Bethnal Green.72 fire service staff involved in putting out the fire. Increased fire safety measures have been taken by the British authorities after a major fire on the night of June 14 in a building Grenfell Tower, which is home to almost 600 people.Tragedy victims were at least 79 people.
US space agency NASA said that the Earth is allegedly plunged into total darkness for two weeks, said "In November 2017 the Federal News Agency ". In the NASA head Charles Bolden report allegedly stated that this phenomenon is due to the fact that Venus and Jupiter will face parallelism. For this reason, the Sun will occur powerful explosion. The star's temperature will increase dramatically and will decrease for 15 days. All this time, the sun will change color and become blue. But in fact, the information turned out to be a duck, which was published in the US media two years ago and mysteriously reappeared. In particular, many Russian media published similar reports. So, Bolden did not publish any NASA official reports such statements.
NEW YORK, June 24./ TASS /.Military aircraft featured on the US Air Force base Offutt (Nebraska), including two E-4B, which in the case of large-scale conflict must become airborne command post for the senior management, received damage due to tornadoes.This was announced on Friday the channel CNN's . Told reporters the representatives of the US Air Force, the incident took place on 16 June.The total damage was done 10 aircraft.Among them are two E-4B, Boeing Corporation American production. These machines are called in the US "doomsday aircraft".It is assumed that they can use in the event of a nuclear war, if the ground control structures will be destroyed. According to the US Air Force, these aircraft, in particular, intended for the President and the Secretary of Defense, as well as Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces.The cost of such an aircraft is about $ 200 million. According to CNN, the US Air Force is kept in constant readiness at least four E-4B. ...
Google search Www.google.ru site was unavailable for some users on Thursday afternoon, said the Telegram-channel "Saybersekyuriti", which is a political activist Aleksandr Litreev. He referred to numerous complaints from users. "Vedomosti" were convinced that a number of operators and service providers the afternoon of June 22 at Google.ru blocked access to several hours. Google.ru page has been included in the register of banned sites and providers started blocking access to the resource, confirmed the "Vedomosti" head of Roskomnadzor Aleksandr Zharov. Do a Google site was redirected to the bookmaker company, he explained, but the search engine removed the redirect and the problem was quickly solved."This is not a false lock," - says Zharov (cm incision.). Initially, the site itself bookmaker company was blocked at the request of the Federal Tax Service (FTS), explained the representative of Roskomn...
Five people, including three teenagers, were killed in the water park in the city Akyazy in north-western Turkey, reports Mirror. The first three victims were children who were swimming in the pool with a metal fence. Among them was the son of the owner of the water park. According to the newspaper Milliyet, two more people electric shock when they tried to save the children. Another person was injured, he was hospitalized. Note that the victims were 12, 15, 17, 30 and 58 years old. Now the police examines the scene to determine the cause of death. Recall, June 23 in Kharkov area child received electric shock, burns and head injuries while collecting mulberry s.
Around 10 o'clock in the morning near Marathon, east of Athens at the time of spraying chemicals crashed helicopter.Reasons Incidents are not yet known. SUKHUM, June 23 - Sputnik. In Greece, the helicopter crashed during a chemical spray, two people were killed and one wounded, reports RIA Novosti with reference to Skai TV channel. The incident occurred at about 10 am near Marathon, east of Athens. Helicopter of a private company engaged in chemical spray and crashed in a swampy area in Schin area. Two crew members were killed and one was wounded. Get out of the fallen helicopter he helped the locals, the source said. According to the TV channel, the helicopter was rented by the authorities in the capital region of Attica for spraying chemicals against mosquitoes.
WHITE HOUSE President Trump Points Finger at Obama on Russian Election Hack Alana Abramson 11:08 AM ET As Senate Republicans huddled in the Capitol before the release of the much anticipated Senate healthcare bill, President Trump, fresh off a rally in Iowa, was unleashing yet another Twitter storm. This time, it was about his predecessor's knowledge of Russian hacking and the current state of the Democratic Party. The President claimed he was vindicated by the testimony of President Obama's Homeland Security Security, Jeh Johnson , who testified before the House Intelligence Committee about Russian interference in the election, and told Rep. Trey Gowdy he didn't have any evidence "beyond what has been out there" that Donald Trump or his associates colluded with Russia during the 2016 election. But Trump also tweeted about his predecessor Barack Obama, questioning wh...