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UCL Information Security Research Group (https://sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk/)

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Steven Murdoch@steven.murdoch.is · 8mo ago

Reuters were accused of acting illegally in guessing the URL of an unreleased report in 2002. I didn’t hear anything after the initial reports so presume it was quietly dropped or settled. blog.citp.princeton.edu/2002/10/31/i...

Intentia vs. Reuters: A (Slightly) Contrarian View - CITP Blog

The recent dispute between Intentia and Reuters has gotten lots of online attention, most of it scornful of Intentia's position. I think Intentia is wrong, but it's a closer call than most online comm...

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James Chalmers@jameschalmers.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I realise there are questions about internal processes etc that are worth asking, but on the face of it this looks like the most straightforward “how did this happen?” inquiry you could possibly imagine. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Reuters, the agency that first published excerpts of the outlook on its news wire, revealed on Thursday how it had obtained the document. It said: “The document, which is usually published after the finance minister’s speech has ended, was uploaded to the OBR website and available to download on an unprotected link. “The link was not advertised on the website but the OBR has used the same web address, or URL, for previous budget documents, changing only the date. A Reuters reporter, in preparation for covering the budget, went to the publicly available URL shortly after 1130 GMT on Wednesday.” Hughes said Ciaran Martin, the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, would provide expert input to the investigation into how the report was accidentally published. It will be overseen by the independent members of the OBR’s oversight board, Sarah Hogg and Dame Susan Rice.
Steven Murdoch@steven.murdoch.is · last yr.

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 s.murdoch@ucl.ac.uk

UCL InfoSec@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk · last yr.

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...

A Privacy Framework for Research Using Social Media Data

Social media data enables researchers to understand current events and human behavior with unprecedented ease and scale. Yet, researchers often violate user privacy when they access, process, and stor...

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Sharad Agarwal@shad1126.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Supporting researchers: How Passive DNS enabled a study into abuse of newly registered domains for phishing - Spamhaus Technology

UCL researchers use Spamhaus' Passive DNS to investigate domains abuse - read on to learn more.

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Steven Murdoch@steven.murdoch.is · last yr.

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.

Alec Muffett@alecmuffett.bsky.social · last yr.

UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites | TechCrunch | it’s nice to get coverage… https://alecmuffett.com/article/112602 #EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #apple #surveillance #tcn

Fabio Pierazzi@fbpierazzi.bsky.social · last yr.

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

PhD Hybrid Open Evening - UCL Security & Crime Science

Join us to to find out more about the PhD programme we have on offer at the UCL Security & Crime Science (SCS) department.

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Fabio Pierazzi@fbpierazzi.bsky.social · last yr.

[1/n] Opportunity to Apply for a Fully-Funded "UK Home Studentship" for a PhD in the "CDT in Cyber-Physical Risk" on "Risk Assessment and Mitigation of Threats to AI-enabled Devices in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems" within @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk

Steven Murdoch@steven.murdoch.is · 2y ago

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...

AI Opportunities Action Plan

Recommendations for the government to capture the opportunities of AI to enhance growth and productivity and create tangible benefits for UK citizens.

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UCL InfoSec@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk · 2y ago

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).

Fabio Pierazzi@fbpierazzi.bsky.social · 2y ago

[1/5] #Opportunity to Apply for a Fully-Funded PhD in Trustworthy ML for Malware Detection at UCL CS @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk Deadline: Jan 28, 2025 Are you passionate about ML and Systems Security? Are you curious to understand root causes performance decay of ML-based malware detection over time?