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. ~.
a very warm welcome to the programme. breathing life back into the high street that s expected to be one of the focuses of the queens speech later today as the uk government promises to rid britain s high streets of derelict shopfronts and help to restore neighbourhood pride. more money will be given to local authorities and extra powers will enable councils to force landlords to rent out empty shops. the plans are also set to include the ability to make pavement cafes a permanent part of the town centre landscape. joining me now is andrew goodacre, ceo, british independent retailers association. how far will this go to reviving high street? we reviving high-street? we welcome reviving high-street? we welcome a reviving high-street? we welcome a focus - reviving high street? - welcome a focus of regenerating high street, solving the problem of renting properties. they destroy the image of high street and make it seem as if it is not successful so that does need to be
merle museum from tomorrow. 0ne document. it goes on display at the merle museum from tomorrow. one of brington‘s first printed pages, the last word of history. duncan kennedy, bbc news, reading. fantastic. time for a look at the weather. changes on the way, low pressure in the atlantic and eventually it will head our way by the end of the week and we will see some heavy showers across many parts of the uk. before then, dry weather over the uk with huge contrasts again. a fair bit of cloud in central and eastern areas, slowly melting away and further west, sonny. further east under the cloud it is pretty grey but it is dry virtually everywhere. we re going to see some brighter conditions. it will be dry and not as windy as it has been. northern scotla nd as windy as it has been. northern scotland seeing thick cloud and a bit of rain. most of scotland doing very well, a lot of sunshine. northern england will be brightening up northern england will be brightening up over the
i m ben brown, and in the next hour president trump s daughter makes herfirst international trip since being given an official position in her father s administration. ivanka trump takes the stage alongside angela merkel as an official adviser to the us but she s forced to defend her father s attitudes towards women. and why regular moderate exercise is the best way to keep your brain sharp, if you re over 50. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. theresa may has said wales is important for britain as took her general election campaign to traditional labour heartlands. speaking in bridgend, in south wales, she said a vote for any other party would be a vote for a weak and failing jeremy corbyn . she also said that welsh votes would strengthen her negotiating position over brexit. it comes after a poll suggested a search for conservatives replace labour as the largest party in wales at the general election. and our chief political correspondent vicki young is in b