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The sale to the private equity-backed Pennsylvania business follows a hold period by Riverside of more than seven years.

After a spate of suspected ransomware attacks on its members, the Freelance and Contractor Services Association is partnering with a cyber security firm that can coach its umbrella firms on how to protect themselves better.

Alex Scroxton joins the team to discuss the Log4j vulnerability and Russian pressure on Ukraine. Also discussed are cyber attacks on umbrella companies, neuro-diversity and junk in space.

THOUSANDS of self-employed workers are understood to have gone weeks without being paid after a company’s systems were hacked.

THOUSANDS of self-employed workers are understood to have gone weeks without being paid after a company’s systems were hacked.

Several weeks on from the suspected ransomware attack that blighted two of the umbrella industry’s biggest players, contractors are still chasing their missing money.

Umbella company confirms a ‘malicious activity on its network’ as the root cause of a systems outage that has delayed salary payments to thousands of contractors across the UK.

Contractor payroll, accounting and compliance firm confirms its networks have been targeted by an ‘extremely aggressive’ cyber attack that has resulted in some of its systems being proactively taken offline.

The changes, which were introduced in the public sector in 2017, have caused widespread concern in the sector as self-employed workers, described by the new rules as contractors, fear the new rules will lead to a greater cost burden and a reduction in work. Dave Chaplin, chief executive of ContractorCalculator, urged contractors to “hold their nerve” but warned that hirers who are not prepared should consider terminating or pausing existing contracts with workers immediately and start as...