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This week alone there has been a cyber attack on Parliament and British companies... and last month the NHS was hit by a ransomware attack.

Our security correspondent Gordon Corera reports on what the latest wave of cyber-attacks tell us about the scale of the threat it poses.

Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre Ciaran Martin tells John Humphrys that 鈥渋n a free and prosperous society, people will always steal, spy and disrupt" and the digital world allows you to do that on a "larger scale鈥�.

Former hacker and Information Security Adviser Mustafa Al-Bassam and Cyber-security Consultant Jane Frankland discuss with Sarah Montague whether the UK have the capability to defend against cyber-attacks.

(Image: Abstract design of a security breach, credit: Getty Images)