🇬🇧💻📃 — 📰 Sky News: UK could be brought to a halt 'at any moment' by cyberattack, report warns

➡️ The UK is unprepared for a large-scale ransomware attack and "at any moment" could be brought to a standstill, a new report says.

➡️ Parliament's Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) said responsibility for tackling ransomware attacks should be taken off the Home Office - which the report accuses of giving political priority to other issues - and given to the Cabinet Office and overseen directly by the deputy prime minister.

➡️ In its report, the JCNSS says the UK's regulatory frameworks are insufficient and outdated, and warns that large swathes of critical national infrastructure remain vulnerable to ransomware because they rely on legacy IT systems.

➡️ It says there has been a failure to sufficiently invest in safeguards to prevent a major crisis, despite government agencies like the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warning about ransomware attacks, particularly from groups linked to Moscow, Beijing, and Pyongyang.

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🇸🇾 — Kurdistan 24: The General Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) on Wednesday adopted a social contract on Wednesday, in which the AANES was renamed as the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES).

Moreover, the new de-facto constitution said that the DAANES will have its own flag that will be flown alongside “the flag of the Syrian Democratic Republic.”

🇮🇶 — SyriacPress: The Athra Alliance in Iraq recently convened in Ankawa to address key issues in the political landscape in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), particularly in anticipation of the upcoming provincial council elections on 18 December. The Alliance unequivocally rejected attempts to exploit the quota seats designated for the Chaldean–Syriac–Assyrian people in the Kurdistan Regional Parliament.

The Alliance called for a transparent process with the quota seats, free from the inclusion of votes from outside the seats designated components, to prevent the confiscation of the quota seats from external and foreign actors with anti-Assyrian interests and ambitions in the region.

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"The answer is absolutely no", she says.

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