Tech Talk news 15: Analysis - 2010 security round-up
Join Tech Talk for a rundown of the week's top IT news stories, and a review of the top security stories of 2010
Welcome to Tech Talk episode 15. In addition to a rundown of the week's top IT stories from Stuart Sumner and Derek du Preez, we offer Computing's view of 2010's top five security stories.
More on Security
Calling the bluff of breachstortion gangs
Confidence in the defences and using backup data to test and assess is key to standing up to the latest criminal demands
Zoom's end-to-end encryption feature now available to users globally
Zoom's new end-to-end encryption uses the same 256-bit AES-GCM encryption used to secure Zoom meetings
British Airways hit with £20m fine for data breach
Fine reduced from initial figure of £183 million because of the pandemic, ICO says
Japan and India join 'Five Eyes' alliance to demand backdoor access to encrypted apps
The alliance wants tech firms to add functionality to their apps for governments to view encrypted messaging; but tech giants argue that any such system could be exploited
Organisations have accrued technical debt in the shift to remote work, and now they have to face the fallout
In a Computing websem, Javvad Malik of KnowBe4 said that companies that lowered security to continue operating in the pandemic must deal with the consequencies - sooner, rather than later
