All articles by Tom Ball

Tom Ball

Malware strikes back hitting Facebook, healthcare and education hard

Healthcare continues to show major cybersecurity weakness across the globe, with recent instances such as the WannaCry ransomware attack standing testament to this.

Ericsson, Telstra make transatlantic encryption breakthrough

Solid cybersecurity is essential across the industries, but the work must go on, and it must be efficient.

Payments buy up continues with $3.5bn Nets A/S deal

This payments takeover deal follows the $10 billion merger between Vantiv and UK payments leader Worldpay. Is a trend emerging?

Fintech saves British businesses £4.6 billion – report

The UK fintech market is booming, leading the way for the rest of world as investment continues to strengthen.

Data breaches are the nature of the beast, says OneLogin CEO

CBR spoke to the CEO of OneLogin, to gain insight on how a security moves forward from a data breach.

NCSC Director: Imminent ‘category one’ cyberattack will be undefendable

Dr. Levy believes that cybersecurity fearmongering is seriously endangering organisations, as people are led to believe that they are completely helpless.

Windows XP puts UK police at ransomware attack risk

Which public service are you most afraid will be hit by a cyberattack? Do you think the government should foot the ransom bill?

1.9 BILLION records lost to cyberattacks in 2017 so far – beating last year’s total number

Despite soaring numbers of lost and stolen records, the number of data breaches has in fact been reduced in the first half of 2017, representing efforts to improve cybersecurity.

Cloud wars: Oracle takes aim at AWS with “Universal Credits”

A price war is being waged at the top of the cloud leaderboard, with Oracle and AWS both introducing transformative developments to their offerings.