All articles by Jimmy Nicholls

Jimmy Nicholls

Oracle swamps retailers with cloud software

Vendor eyes multi-channel as it builds cloud portfolio.

One year on from Heartbleed, what have we learnt?

Report from Venafi reveals three-quarters have yet to fix the problem.

Is PPRO the future of alternative payments?

As former Sage Pay CEO Simon Black moves into the chief exec role at PPRO, the payments aggregator prepares to scale.

UK follows US in requesting data from Snapchat

Outside of the States, Britain accounts for a third of legal requests.

TrueCrypt audit finds tool clear of ‘deliberate backdoors’

Investigators of software used by Snowden largely happy with its integrity.

Critical infastructure targeted by data destruction attacks

Half of critical infrastructure groups in the Americas are seeing cyberattacks on data and equipment.

Dridex banking malware pioneers the short spam campaign

Hackers use five-hour stints to evade antivirus detection.

Virtu plans £211m IPO in first for high-frequency trading

Filing will see executive chair Vincent Viola retain majority voting rights.

Mobile payments must solve fragmentation to succeed

Analysis: Pyramid Research report recommends consolidation.

5 ways Silicon Valley is taking on politics

From saving encryption to running for office, technologists are making policy.