Boris Johnson's thumping general election victory saw a swathe of unloved stocks come charging back, with the Gervais Williams-run Miton UK MicroCap Trust (MINI) among them.Shares in the investment trust reversed more than a year of poor stock price performance to rally 4.7% to 50.9p with investors clearly far more confident that the Prime Minister can get his Brexit deal through Parliament...

Today's profit warning from Corero Network Security (CNS:AIM) is another ugly reminder of how tough it is for small, sub-scale cyber security businesses.The AIM-listed business provides DDoS protection to clients. In plain English, it is software that alerts against distributed denial of service attacks, the sort of online hacks that shutdown websites and undermine trust among users.Today the...

London's FTSE 100 falls to a seventh-month low of 6,983 on Tuesday, with markets flashing red across Europe and Asia amid geopolitical tensions focused on Saudi Arabia, a falling oil price, Italy's budget issues and ongoing Brexit concerns among many other issues.Leisure leviathan Whitbread (WTB) weakens 75p or 1.7% to £43.89 after booking a flat first half profit with sales growth...

London's FTSE 100 trades modestly higher on Thursday, up 3.9 points to 7,529.1 following a fall on Wall Street and a mixed session for Asian markets in a quiet day as global markets get set for Christmas.Infrastructure giant Balfour Beatty's (BBY) shares bounce 3.2% higher to 290.7p as it raises its 2017 pre-tax profit forecast and net cash estimates after agreeing to sell a 12.5% stake in...

The cyber security space is one of the most in-demand UK technology investment themes. Market appetite has been encouraged by a combination of high profile hacking attacks (TalkTalk (TALK), the NHS, Sony, eBay, Uber; it's a long list) plus tightening regulations on organisations.For example, European general data protection rules (GDPR) are set to come into force from May 2018.In tandem with...

The vast majority of 'distributed denial of service' (DDoS) cyber-attacks are over before most organisations even realise they are happening, experts say.Most last less than 10 minutes, says Andrew Lloyd, the sales and marketing chief of DDoS defence specialist Corero Network Security (CNS:AIM).That means most attacks have finished before most cyber defence systems even recognise they are...

Organisations across the world have been thrown into disarray by a ransomware hacking attack that has hobbled IT systems. That's prompted investors to take another look at firms which help defend against cyber security breaches.Experts are calling it the biggest ransomware attack so far, with more than 200,000 computers believed to have been infected from Russia to Taiwan. The event shut down...

When most people read the terms cybercrime, cyber security, hacking attacks or something similar a doom-laden future scape will often be conjured up. Investors need to look beyond the implied gloom and spot the opportunities to invest in what is clearly a big issue now, and it's getting more critical by the day.For those that can, the latest report from technology market researcher Juniper...

Ambitious cyber security fighter Corero Network Security (CNS:AIM) has announced plans to raise around £5m in a conditional share placing priced at 5p per share. That's a fractional 2.5% discount to Wednesday's closing 5.125p share price. The stock nudged modestly higher on Thursday to 5.25p, valuing the business at about £10.6m.But it gets more complicated. Chairman Jens Montanana plans to...

A mini stream of new business wins may suggest Corero Network Security (CNS:AIM) is starting to build meaningful market share against bigger rivals. Since publishing half year results on 13 September, the distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyber security company has bagged $1.1m worth of contracts.

Consultancy giant PwC has revealed plans to recruit over 1,000 technology specialists between now and 2020 as it delves ever deeper into the wide-ranging market for all things digital security. We're talking about effective threat vulnerability management, predictive analytics or intelligence and IT risk and resilience strategies.This is far from the first shot fired in the cyber security...

New business wins have put the spotlight on distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyber-attack defender Corero Network Security (CNS:AIM). We see that as vindication of management's SmartWall threat defence system strategy.The £46.3 million company has been pushing SmartWall since February 2014 but it took the best part of 18 months to gain traction.On 23 May 2016, Corero announced its first...

Property and tech stocks lead the FTSE 100 in a choppy early session which sees the blue chip index swing from early losses to a 0.2% gain at 6,168 on solid economic data.Germany's Purchasing Manager Index data, a measure of private sector business activity, comes in better than expected, registering a 54.7 print for May versus 53.6 a month earlier.In the UK, corporate and economic news is...

It's welcome news for investors to see a new cyber security specialist join AIM today, say hello to Osirium Technologies (OSI:AIM), a small but ambitious company hoping to hit the fast lane of growth. I won't bang on about it, more information is available in this week's issue of SHARES, which subscribers can read here (click here if you're not a sub and want a trial).That takes the number of...

'We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another.' So wrote Klaus Schwab in January, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. 'In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before.'Schwab was referring to what he calls the 'fourth...

London shares began on a mildly negative note ahead of a raft of inflation data due out mid morning, while Europe is heavily lower after a series of terror attacks in Brussels this morning.The FTSE 100 index nudge around 15 points, or roughly 0.3%, lower to 6,167.Thomas Cook (TCG) falls 5% to 87.8p in the wake of this morning's deadly explosions in Brussels' airport and metro system. The...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyber attacks defender Corero Network Security (CNS:AIM) believes it can turn itself into a $40 million to $50 million revenue business.The £46.4 million cap has been pushing its SmartWall threat defence system since February 2014 and a head of steam is finally starting to build. The stock has nearly doubled in a month to 28p, perhaps heralding the start...

It's a reasonable question given the firm's patchy (to say the least) performance. This is an IT security company, albeit, a small one, but it couldn't ask to be in a hotter spot (this is what Shares wrote in a feature back in 2013, and here's our most recent cyber security feature). Yet in the four and half years that Corero Network Security (CNS:AIM) has been a distributed denial of service,...

The FTSE 100 is again on the back foot as resources companies suffered thanks to weak commodity prices. Financials, pharmaceuticals, property and retail stocks are also under pressure.Staying in the retail sector Sainsbury's (SBY) is up 0.3% to 242.85p as Home Retail (HOME) - down 6.6% to 130.1p - confirms it rejected the former's takeover bid because it undervalued the group and its long-term...

For the best part of two weeks the cyber attack on broadband and calls supplier TalkTalk (TALK) has been the talk of the town, there's been blanket coverage across UK newspapers and the web-o-sphere. That attack meant the group's more than four million customer's personal data and bank account details were potentially compromised. While CEO Dido Harding leapt into action to try to limit the...