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Secure systems, secure data, secure people, secure business<br />
Computing Security <strong>Nov</strong>/<strong>Dec</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
contents<br />
CONTENTS<br />
Computing<br />
Security<br />
NEWS<br />
OPINION<br />
INDUSTRY<br />
COMMENT<br />
CASE STUDIES<br />
PRODUCT REVIEWS<br />
HACKERS FOR HIRE<br />
SPOT CHECKS<br />
Contact tracing could be<br />
Only cyber resilience will<br />
‘infringing human rights’<br />
stop them in their tracks<br />
SIEGE MENTALITY<br />
Cyber-attacks go global<br />
HAVE YOU BEEN SMISHED?<br />
COMMENT 3<br />
Time to take GDPR up a gear<br />
Beware the growing texting menace<br />
EDITOR’S FOCUS 6<br />
Life under siege<br />
OPEN-AND-SHUT CASE 15<br />
Being receptive to ethical disclosure is<br />
vital, states Paul Ritchie, Managing<br />
Security Consultant, Pentest Limited<br />
THE NEW ORDER 16<br />
Is now the perfect time to get your (IT)<br />
house in order? Paul Harris, managing<br />
director, Pentest, offers his thoughts<br />
SHATTERED TRUST 8<br />
Babylon Health suffered a data breach<br />
where users of the GP remote consultation<br />
service were able to access videos of other<br />
patients' appointments with their doctor.<br />
Are such hack attacks, which are soaring,<br />
becoming beyond our control?<br />
HITTING THE SWEET SPOT 18<br />
Digital transformation is forecast to be<br />
the next driver for mergers & acquisitions<br />
SMISH, SMASH, BASH! 12<br />
A relatively new spin on phishing has<br />
DENTED SHIELD 20<br />
entered the lexicon, in the form of<br />
The EU-US Privacy Shield has been ruled<br />
'smishing'. But what is that exactly and<br />
invalid, shaking up how data protection<br />
how dangerous might it be to the<br />
and data privacy are regarded<br />
unsuspecting? And where does ‘vishing’<br />
come to play? Welcome to an ever more<br />
BRAKING BAD! 25<br />
perplexing world!<br />
Car owners could be putting themselves<br />
at great risk by not clearing their personal<br />
data before selling their vehicles<br />
APTS AND COVID-19 30<br />
WE HAVE CONTACT 22<br />
A recent intelligence report reveals how<br />
Effective contact tracing is important when<br />
advanced persistent threats are using the<br />
it comes to successfully limiting the spread<br />
coronavirus as a lure<br />
of pandemics. Yet the data that is gathered<br />
could well lead to human rights abuses, if<br />
THE GOOD... AND THE BAD 31<br />
effective safeguards are not put in place to<br />
Confusion around some new technologies<br />
protect the privacy of individuals<br />
is hitting many companies trying to be<br />
compliant with the GDPR<br />
REBALANCING THE BOOKS 32<br />
Awareness around gender diversity in the<br />
HACKERS FOR HIRE 26<br />
cyber security industry is starting to improve,<br />
‘Hacker for hire’ groups are said to be<br />
but there's still a very long way to go<br />
targeting hundreds of thousands of<br />
institutions around the world, including<br />
PRODUCT REVIEWS<br />
advocacy groups, journalists, elected<br />
• Cybereason Mobile 19<br />
officials, lawyers, hedge funds and<br />
• Hornetsecurity 365 Total Protection 29<br />
companies. Can they be stopped?<br />
computing security <strong>Nov</strong>-<strong>Dec</strong> <strong>2020</strong> @<strong>CS</strong>MagAndAwards www.computingsecurity.co.uk<br />
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