Technology

Ransomware cyber attacks increased by 25% worldwide in the first quarter of this year compared to the final three months of 2019, based on incidents reported to Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Services.

Almost a third of UK workers at small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) have fallen victim to phishing emails since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, with nearly half of those emails related to the pandemic.

The world is unprepared for heightened environmental, societal and technological risks brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has warned today.

Businesses will be forced to reconsider their spending priorities as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, and insurers are likely to ramp up investment in artificial intelligence (AI), according to GlobalData.

Simon Cartagena and Jasvir Grewal explain the issue of non-affirmative ‘silent’ cyber exposure, and share the Cyber Risk Working Party’s framework for helping insurance companies to address it

Chris Seekings and Kate Pearce talk to Carly Kind about the opportunities brought by big data and artificial intelligence – and the challenges of ensuring they benefit all of society

Blockchain technology and the trading of bitcoin were introduced in October 2008 in the famous paper by Satoshi Nakamoto.

The last few years have seen a number of calls for 'transparency' around the workings of the latest artificial intelligence systems.

Wind energy technology is relevant to the international political objectives of the Paris Agreement, UN Sustainability Goals, the declared climate emergency, reduction of pollution, and UK green growth strategy.

Ian Collier and the Cashless Society Working party suggest the UK government look beyond protecting cash and instead leapfrog the vulnerable into the digital economy