JUST ONE DAMNED VIRUS AFTER ANOTHER
EDITORIAL EDITOR Neal Romanek +44 (0) 1223 492246 nealromanek@bright-publishing.com
n 2 March 1988, Mac users were hit by a computer virus that had been quietly replicating itself across the expanding global Mac community. Every infected machine simultaneously showed
issue of FEED , we ask industry experts how media businesses should protect themselves from the cyberthreats which are – literally – all around us. And we learn that the biggest security risk is human nature. The danger is huge, but some of the solutions are simple. On a more cheerful note, we also examine a new method of using solar energy and cloud computing to create sustainable, community-based networks. We visit virtual set tech and look at the increasing affordability of top-end graphics systems. And we grade how video eLearning has performed during lockdown. Of course, we also have Xtreme – our magazine-in-a-magazine, covering the latest in broadcasting sports and pro gaming. It includes an in-depth examination of how Tokyo 2020 finally crossed the finish line, and why ingenious mobile apps are helping sports fans play along at home.
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the message: “RICHARD BRANDOW, publisher of MacMag , and its entire staff would like to take this opportunity to convey their UNIVERSAL MESSAGE OF PEACE to all Macintosh users around the world”, then deleted itself. The MacMag virus wasn’t the first computer example by a long shot (legendary mathematician and super-genius John von Neumann introduced the basic principles of self-replicating machines in the 1940s), but viruses today are just one of a whole arsenal of tools that can be used to steal data, shut down businesses and even kill people (healthcare is a major target). In this
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