Sentence examples for threat ratings from inspiring English sources

The UK's national cyber-security response team, Cert-UK, has issued an alert to all government departments stating that the Shellshock flaw carried the "highest possible threat ratings… for both impact and exploitability".

The UK's national cyber-security response team, Cert-UK, has warned that a bug dubbed Shellshock has the "highest possible threat ratings… for both impact and exploitability" and could be targeting the security of hundreds of millions of websites.

The UK government said its cybersecurity response team had issued an alert to its agencies and departments giving Shellshock the "highest possible threat ratings".

Follow-up between-subject tests indicated that maternal anxiety disorder status was significantly associated with increased negative emotion ratings (F 1, 256) = 52.34, P<.001; d =.90), increased threat ratings (F 1, 256) = 34.24, P<.001; d =.73), and reduced control ratings (F 1, 256) = 36.87, P<.001; d =.76).

Without doubt, blackmail in the form of warnings of chaos and the constant threat of ratings downgrades can temporarily paralyse democratic reflexes.

But even the threat of ratings cuts pushed Enron to the brink of bankruptcy, because the company's partners were unwilling to trade with it unless it maintained its investment-grade credit rating, Mr. Diaz said.

The threat of ratings reversals, a downgrade of Greek banks by Fitch, and strikes that shut down most of Athens on Wednesday have precipitated another spike in the price of Greek credit default swaps, which investors buy as insurance against default.

As for Europe, investors were unnerved by an overnight threat by ratings agency Moody's to downgrade Spain's debt, although there was some positive news as Spain succeeded in a €3.5bn bond sale and European banks repaid a €442bn loan to the ECB and borrowed €111bn in short term funding, in line with forecasts.

"With ever-increasing security threats, cybersecurity ratings are becoming an important part of leading companies' cyber-defense.

"We believe that the government cannot afford any adverse economic developments at this juncture on the back of the still-looming threat of sovereign ratings downgrade by credit rating agencies," he said.

The chancellor has repeatedly justified the cuts as a reasonable response to unprecedented debt levels and the threat from credit ratings agencies to downgrade the UK's blue-chip AAA rating.