Growth in cybersecurity has been accelerated by Covid-19 - but will it last?

Hacking threat remains unless action is taken

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The first ever recorded cyber-attack dates back to 1988. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this attack, it exploited a worm known as the "Morris Worm", which started to install itself on computers, infecting and debilitating them, before finally crashing them.

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