APIG proposes revisions to the Computer Misuse Act 1990
Shelley Hill of Robert Muckle welcomes the All Parliamentary Internet Group’s inquiry into the Act….
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Cybersecurity
Can we can the spam?
Dr. David Wall of Leeds University asks the question we would all like to see answered with a ‘YES’….
Flights and Rights: Anonymisation, Data-Matching and Privacy
As the EU and US debate sharing of airline passenger information, Stewart Baker, Maury Shenk, Kees Kuilwijk, Winnie Chang and Daniel Mah of Steptoe & Johnson examine the special circumstances and the extent to which sophisticated anonymisation techniques can resolve some of the most difficult conflicts between privacy and security….
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Editorial
2004 is SCL’s 30th Anniversary – and it is going to be a very positive and exciting year for the Society. The Society has two new Trustees, Kit Burden and Bill Jones, and they will bring new ideas and the backing of their considerable reputations to SCL business. There is renewed interest in the use…
Blackberry
Laurence Eastham reports on his all too brief fling with the Blackberry wireless communications solution….
Driving a Trojan Horse and Cart through the Computer Misuse Act
The recent acquittal of Aaron Caffrey of a charge pursuant to s 3 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 has brought to light the inadequacies of both that Act and other aspects of the criminal justice system in dealing with denial of service attacks. Shelley Hill suggests it is time to review the law….
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Human Factors in Information Security
Gary Hinson of IsecT Ltd lays out the case for managing the human side of information security just as carefully as the technical side….
Making E-mail Safe
Gordon Olson, Chairman of Meticulus Solutions, looks at methods of making e-mail secure….
Time to Drop the Bomb?
Software bombs have been commonplace in the IT industry for many years. Tim Sewart addresses a question asked of him on a number of occasions: are they legal?…
Security – Why should you care?
What does security mean to you? Most people could be forgiven for thinking that they don’t really have to worry about IT security. Who is really going to try to hack into your systems, especially if you are a small or medium sized company? It’s only big multi-nationals that get attacked, right? Jackie Groves of Ultimaco Safeware knows otherwise….