Are now widespread and on the increase. The proportion of businesses targeted by cyber criminals in the past year rose from 38% to 43%, according to a report published today by hiscox. Over a quarter of those firms targeted had to deal with five attacks or more. Perhaps unsurprisingly, spending on security has doubled over the past two years. Only last week in a world economic forum survey of firms, two in five flagged up cybersecurity as a major risk factorfacing firms. So why is it rising, and what can businesses do to protect themselves? joining me now is gareth wharton cyber ceo of hiscox. Talk us through the last year. Is given the attackers many more routes to target customers so there is many more fishing attacks so lots of covid lowers, coming here to your vaccine, get learn about covid phishing. Also businesses had to set up e commerce sites or remotely remote work hidden facilities and these had to be set up in a rush. ~. , ~ and these had to be set up in a rush. ~.
Wales, the midlands and east anglia we have showers and thunderstorms forming. The showers are bad because of a change in the wind direction with southerly winds colliding with easterly winds on this trough. Later this afternoon these bigger storms will be across northern england, particularly lincolnshire and yorkshire into the north east, with hail and thunder mixed in with the really hefty downpours. As that feature continues to move northwards, south east england should continue to say try with sunshine, and china for the most part in scotland, northern ireland missing out on the showers. Should be a fine afternoon foremost continuing to stay dry with sunshine. Overnight the showers will continue to push northwards across northern england into scotland, still with some heavy rain. Temperatures around six or seven, similar to last night. Tomorrow, starting with rain across scotland again, pushing slowly northwards again, pushing slowly northwards again but not clearing. Colourful
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about ten or ii degrees or so western areas but only about ten or 11 degrees and the east coast, bit more cloud in a breeze coming in of the north sea. heading to india monday, you are really crossing your fingers for a little bit of rain fell and we have got an area of low pressure approaching scotland that could well bring little showery rain, nothing particularly heavy in position to the day on monday, any chance that that could push a bit further south with one or two showers arriving in northern ireland, northern england, perhaps on into tuesday as well but temperatures turning a little bit cooler than we would expect for the time of year and things remaining predominantly dry, particularly at parts of england and wales with this temperature is just dipping parts of england and wales with this temperature isjust dipping down parts of england and wales with this temperature is just dipping down as we head through the course of next week but you can find more details on th