Category Archives: Security

My interview with BBC Radio Ulster Nolan show on a Northern Ireland government department apologising after 295,000 ratepayers were sent bills which had an incorrect ‘spam’ weblink for making a payment.

My interview with BBC News on 300,000 ratepayers being sent letters which included an ‘incorrect weblink’ linking to malware for making a payment.

My interview with BBC Radio Foyle on Meta facing legal scrutiny over the use of copyright protected works to train AI models. We also discuss airline passengers being issued with a digital ‘journey pass’ containing all relevant information in the biggest shake-up of global aviation in 50 years & we discuss the energy cost of using AI.

My interview with BBC Radio Foyle on Meta facing a high-stakes trial on claims it built an illegal social media monopoly by spending billions of dollars to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp in a case in which US antitrust enforcers seek to unwind the deals.

My interview with BBC News NI on the geo-blocking aspect of BBC Radio Ulster or Radio Foyle no longer available to listeners in the Republic of Ireland through BBC Sounds online.

My interview with BBC Radio Foyle news about cinemas experiencing customer disruption at some screenings of the box-office hit A Minecraft Movie.

My interview on BBC Radio 5 Live about a judge siding with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations and ruling that a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret.

My interview with ITPro on the rise of Infostealers which are malicious programs designed to extract sensitive data, such as passwords, session cookies and authentication tokens.

My interview with CSO on how generative AI is used to mimic writing styles, avoid traditional phishing red flags, and even personalize fraudulent emails based on publicly available data.

My interview on BBC Radio Foyle about a third of people aged over 60 saying life is harder than it was five years ago because more services are online, according to an Age UK survey. We also discuss the privacy implications of Amazon echo data being sent to the cloud.