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Computer Weekly - 1 December 2020: How retailers are using technology to survive

In this week’s Computer Weekly, with high-street retailers struggling to survive through the pandemic, we look at how they are using tech to keep stores relevant. Everyone is focusing on flash storage, but good-old hard disk drives are still an essential part of the IT toolkit. And we examine the latest developments in the ongoing Post Office Horizon IT scandal. Read the issue now.

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    Lost or stolen smartphones need protection. Full-disk encryption has become a popular method of protecting data stored on a smartphone against such events. In this article we introduce two attacks on full-disk encryption for Android. The first targets older pre-Android 5.0 versions. This attack is well known and exploitation tools are publicly available. Android 5.0 claims to have resolved the previous attack. We describe a new attack on Android 5.0, which does not take significantly longer to conduct than the pre-Android 5.0 exploit. We also discuss potential countermeasures, observing that simple solutions are hard to find.

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    Picture this: The Jones Company stored all their local data on users’ computers, relying on internal and external hard disks and a server in the basement for storage.

    Then the unthinkable happened: the basement flooded, and all that data was floating away just as the tax office paid The Jones Company a visit. Don’t let this be your business!

    Tune into this brief video to learn how The Jones Company turned their situation around, strengthening data protection and compliance, by backing up their data to the AWS cloud.

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