Category Archives: Security

My interview with BBC Radio Foyle on the OpenAI board sacking Sam Altman, network roaming fees and insecure passwords.

My interview with ITPro on how Ransomware remains one of the biggest threats to critical national infrastructure with attacks increasing tenfold and in severity.

My interview with IT Pro on how attackers target service accounts that use Kerberos to look out for weak or easily guessable passwords that can be cracked quickly.

My interview on BBC Radio Foyle on whether a ‘Hamas’ Derry Halloween costume image circulated online is fake.

My interview on BBC Radio Foyle about the average annual standby energy costs for a device on standby for 20 hours per day (that is 7,300 hours per year).

My interview with The Register on The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) setting out eight rules for hacktivists to discourage civilian involvement in cyberattacks against other countries.

My interview on the Vanessa Feltz show on TalkTV about a major data breach which has rocked multiple organizations, including an NHS trust, a police service, a government department, and local councils, resulting in the exposure of the locations of domestic abuse victims to their alleged abusers.

This breach appears to have put the lives of women and children at risk, as their addresses and whereabouts, crucial information for their safety, have fallen into the wrong hands.

My interview on BBC Radio Foyle about Apple Fixing iPhone Radiation Levels with Software Update & airplane mode on flights.