Thomson Reuters reported a good start to 2019 as it rebounded to a profit while revenue rose by 8 percent on an IFRS basis from a year ago. The company is starting its first full year without its Financial & Risk business, which was spun off to Blackline and now operates as Refinitiv.

Most CCH products were back on line as the work week ended on Friday, May 10.  Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting noted the need to scan and test each product and network as they were brought back up following this week’s malware-induced worldwide outage.

Wolters Kluwer has listed a number of applications and platforms that have been brought back on line after this week’s widespread technology systems outage. The company also notes it is in contact with law enforcement about what has been acknowledged as a maware attack.

Wolters Kluwer was warned on May 3 by Brian Krebs, an author who writes extensively about computer security, about possible security problems with its software. In a post on Krebs on Security, Krebs admitted he had no information that the problems he reported had  anything to do with the outages that have affected  CCH products and services since May 6.