Professor Kevin Curran

My interview on BBC Radio Foyle about Amazon’s patent which describes an algorithm that can listen to entire conversations, using “trigger words”, such as like and love, to build a profile of customers. It could then offer “targeted ads”.

My interview in BDaily News on the potential of blockchain to be used to secure IoT devices.

My interview on BBC Radio Foyle about Mark Zuckerberg testimony before congress for the worst privacy debacle in his company’s history.

My interview in CXO Today on the need for more sophisticated techniques such as machine learning to discover lurking cyber intrusion techniques.

My BBC Radio Foyle interview about Facebook revealing that the data of 87 million users was improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. It includes 1.1 million UK users. Mark Zuckerberg said “clearly we should have done more & will going forward”.

My BBC Newsline interview in the wake of DUP MLA Maurice Bradley apologising & deleting his Twitter account after retweeting a post describing London Mayor Sadiq Khan as the “enemy within”.

My interview in Tahawul Tech on how Biometric security is fast emerging as the preferred way to safeguard the data of companies and individuals from threat actors.

My interview on BBC Radio Ulster about the leak of email addresses and login information during a February break-in affecting about 150 million users of its food and nutrition website, MyFitnessPal.

BBC Radio Foyle interview on an unauthorized party acquiring data associated with 150 million MyFitnessPal user accounts. The data breach is largest this year & in top 5 overall based on the number of records compromised.

My interview in ITPro on how device manufacturers, in particular, are in a prime position to potentially abuse IoT-generated data.[/caption]