My BBC Radio Ulster Talkback interview on the news that local councils who provide free WiFi are collecting private details such as names, addresses, sites visited, data download sizes and offering it in some cases to third parties.
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Local Councils collecting private details at Free WiFi Login
My interview on BBC Radio Foyle on the worries about the actual collection of private details that people need to provide when using free WiFi provided by local councils in Northern Ireland.
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Call for more specialist code reviewers after new OpenSSL vulnerability found
My interview in Computing on the need for specialist knowledge in secure code reviews in the wake of another OpenSSL vulnerability.
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GameOver Zeus/Cryptolocker – How to defend yourself against the ‘two-week’ attack
My BBC Radio interview on the shutting down of a network of criminally operated computers that were stealing important information from victims’ machines.
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Fears over Facebook’s new listening feature becoming ‘yet another spying tool’
My Computing Magazine interview about Facebook’s new smartphone app that’ll enable it to “listen” to user’s music and TV shows, which has raised concerns that it could allow the app to be used for unauthorised surveillance.
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Smart baby monitor hacked & used to wake up a sleeping child
My interview in IT Pro on a US hacker who found his way into a webcam-based baby monitor in Ohio and started screaming violent obscenities at a 10-month old baby girl.
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US government warns of Heartbleed bug danger
My interview on BBC Radio Foyle lunchtime with Mark Patterson interview on the encryption flaw which can potentially be exploited to steal passwords and secret keys used to protect computer users.
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People are “wet” with security
My interview in The Times about strengthening cyber security in the face of human weakness.
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The role of biometrics in future security
My IEEE interview at Mobile World Congress 2014 on day 3 about biometric security.
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Secure Smartphones
My IEEE interview at Mobile World Congress 2014 on day 2 about secure smartphones.