My interview on BBC Radio Foyle about Mark Zuckerberg testimony before congress for the worst privacy debacle in his company’s history.
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Why AI Could Be Cybersecurity’s Next Big Thing
My interview in CXO Today on the need for more sophisticated techniques such as machine learning to discover lurking cyber intrusion techniques.
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Facebook scandal ‘hit 87 million users’
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”.
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DUP MLA deletes Twitter account over retweet
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”.
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Biometrics: a security bane or boon?
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.
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MyFitnessPal app hit by data breach affecting 150 million users
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.
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Under Armour Data Breach Exposes 150 Million MyFitnessPal Accounts
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.
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What the Internet of Things (IoT) means for data security
My interview in ITPro on how device manufacturers, in particular, are in a prime position to potentially abuse IoT-generated data.[/caption]
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Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones
My interview on Radio Sputnik Moscow World Service about users collecting their data from Facebook & discovering that Facebook had been logging call and SMS data for years. It is also on Soundcloud.
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Facebook users shocked to find it logs SMS texts and calls
My interview on BBC Radio Ulster Evening Extra about users discovering that Facebook holds far more data about them than they expected, including complete logs of incoming and outgoing calls and SMS messages.

