I spoke to @nbcnews.com about cryptocurrency kidnappings and provided insights from our paper on cryptocurrency wrench attacks. ➡️Check out the interesting yet unfortunate story about two victims in the article below. ➡️Our paper can be found here: drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/doc... @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk

UCL Computer Science are hiring Section Managers to support the development and delivery of teaching, research, and strategy within their section. I’ll be leading the Foundational Computer Science section, where the InfoSec group is based. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

“$5 Wrench Attacks: When Cryptocurrency Crime Get Physical”, a post on Bentham’s Gaze by Marilyne Ordekian discussing when XKCD comics become reality – www.benthamsgaze.org/2025/07/22/5...

I am recruiting mental-health experts (clinical psychologists and psychiatrists) for an in-person workshop in London to discuss a mobile app for mental health care. Participants will receive £500+expenses for their time. If you might be interested please email [email protected]

On our new paper published at IEEE Security and Privacy – “A Privacy Framework for Research Using Social Media Data”, a summary by Kyle Beadle. www.benthamsgaze.org/2025/05/15/a...

I have an open PhD position at @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk on applying traffic-analysis resistance techniques to protect industrial control systems. Full funding is available for home-fee status students (deadline 15 April). www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...

Criminals have been abusing newly registered domains towards SMS phishing #smishing. Our research empirically investigates the abuse of over 15k newly registered phishing domains using @spamhaustech.bsky.social @spamhaus.bsky.social passive DNS. @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk www.spamhaus.com/resource-cen...

Until now, the UK government recommended that individuals at high risk, like legal professionals, enable Apple Advanced Data Protection (ADP). Apple disabled ADP following government pressure, and now the NCSC quietly deleted their guidance recommending ADP.

On March 6th, 2025 (6pm-8pm UK time), there will be a PhD Open Evening, as an hybrid event held online via Zoom and in person at "Room 225, Central House," 14 Upper Woburn Place, WC1H 0NN, London. You may register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/phd-hybrid... /cc @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk

[1/5] Opportunity to Apply for a Fully-Funded "UK Home Studentship" for a PhD at @ucl.ac.uk Computer Science and @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk (deadline: Feb 21, 2025) (Please note that this opportunity is open only to candidates eligible for "UK Home" fees.)

My take on the AI Action Plan – good: encouraging APIs and standardisation; bad: focus on dataset release rather than controlled access (anonymisation has a poor track record for rich data); concerning: prioritisation of novelty over doing the right thing. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Funded opportunity for a PhD studentship on Trustworthy Machine Learning in the UCL InfoSec Research Group. Further details are in the thread below (application deadline 28 January).

The UCL Information Security Research Group is now on Bluesky