{"id":102359,"date":"2017-05-14T21:15:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T01:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=102359"},"modified":"2017-05-14T21:15:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T01:15:13","slug":"doj-orders-beefing-up-of-govt-cyber-security-efforts-vs-ransomware-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/14\/doj-orders-beefing-up-of-govt-cyber-security-efforts-vs-ransomware-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ orders beefing up of gov&#8217;t cyber security efforts vs &#8216;ransomware&#8217; attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102360\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DOJ-Aguirre-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102360\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DOJ-Aguirre-2.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cLet us do what we can to monitor and step up our cyber security measures to prevent or at least minimize the adverse effects of the \u2018ransomware\u2019 attacks on our system,\u201d Aguirre said on Sunday, adding that he also gave the same instruction to the Cybercrime Division of the DOJ. (Photo: Philippine News Agency)\" width=\"215\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cLet us do what we can to monitor and step up our cyber security measures to prevent or at least minimize the adverse effects of the \u2018ransomware\u2019 attacks on our system,\u201d Aguirre said on Sunday, adding that he also gave the same instruction to the Cybercrime Division of the DOJ. (Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/\">Philippine News Agency<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2013Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) as well as the Cybercrime Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to intensify cyber security measures in the wake of the massive WannaCrypt ransomware attacks in various nations across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The Wannacrypt ransomware demands USD300 from victims or their files will be permanently deleted. It threatens the users to raise the ransom after a specific countdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us do what we can to monitor and step up our cyber security measures to prevent or at least minimize the adverse effects of the \u2018ransomware\u2019 attacks on our system,\u201d Aguirre said on Sunday, adding that he also gave the same instruction to the Cybercrime Division of the DOJ.<\/p>\n<p>Aguirre also said that so far there is no report of a \u2018WannaCrypt\u2019 attack in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>In a report posted by Danny Palmer of ZDNet.com, businesses, governments and individuals in 74 countries across the globe have been victims of more than 45,000 attacks by this one strain of ransomware in cyberspace in just a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>Systems of hospitals across the UK were knocked offline by the ransomware attack, with patient appointments cancelled and doctors and nurses resorting to pen and paper and NHS England declaring the cyber attack as a &#8216;major incident&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the attack has affected a total of 45 NHS organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2013Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) as well as the Cybercrime Division of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":102360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[3414,19064,19065],"class_list":["post-102359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-doj","tag-govt-cyber-security","tag-ransomware","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}