{"id":56648,"date":"2026-07-14T18:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/public-to-be-told-how-to-prepare-for-cyber-attack-and-weather-emergencies\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:18:27","slug":"public-to-be-told-how-to-prepare-for-cyber-attack-and-weather-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/public-to-be-told-how-to-prepare-for-cyber-attack-and-weather-emergencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Public to be told how to prepare for cyber-attack and weather emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones said: &#8220;Throughout our history, the UK has overcome challenges from plagues and pandemics to war and our fair share of wet weather. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is right that we consistently evaluate the risks we could face and plan for what may come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This year we saw temperatures across the UK breaking records in May, only to be exceeded again in June, and AI offers new ways for criminals to carry out cyber-attacks against us, as well as offering huge opportunities for our economy and security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The government will do all it can and we are well prepared \u2013 but we can all play our part to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said a nationwide resilience public awareness campaign would tell people the ways they can prepare for &#8220;emergencies and disruption &#8211; be that severe weather or a cyber-attack which can impact access to power, water, phone signal or local shops to get food&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The campaign will build on information <a href=\"https:\/\/prepare.campaign.gov.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">already available on the government&#8217;s website.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of its emergency preparations, ministers will run a multi-day exercise, named Operation Albiston Shadow, which will test the country&#8217;s ability to respond to hybrid attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The country&#8217;s classified crisis plans &#8211; dubbed &#8216;war books&#8217; &#8211; are also being updated for the first time since 2004.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp3x37lw1ndo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jones said: &#8220;Throughout our history, the UK has overcome challenges from plagues and pandemics to war and our fair share of wet weather. &#8220;It is right that we consistently evaluate the risks we could face and plan for what may come. &#8220;This year we saw temperatures across the UK breaking records in May, only to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[11728,15971,100,723,99,864],"class_list":["post-56648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-cyberattack","tag-emergencies","tag-prepare","tag-public","tag-told","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56650,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56648\/revisions\/56650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}