UCL InfoSec
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UCL Information Security Research Group (https://sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk/)
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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
➡️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
August 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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
➡️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
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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/...
August 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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...
July 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“$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...
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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
June 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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
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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May 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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...
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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...
April 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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...
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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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March 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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...
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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.
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
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112602
#EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #apple #surveillance #tcn
UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites | TechCrunch | it’s nice to get coverage…
The U.K. government appears to have quietly scrubbed encryption advice from government web pages, just weeks after demanding backdoor access to encrypted data stored on Apple’s cloud storage servic…
alecmuffett.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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.
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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
March 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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
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[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.)
(Please note that this opportunity is open only to candidates eligible for "UK Home" fees.)
January 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
[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.)
(Please note that this opportunity is open only to candidates eligible for "UK Home" fees.)
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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.
www.gov.uk
January 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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).
[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?
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?
January 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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
November 29, 2024 at 2:57 PM
The UCL Information Security Research Group is now on Bluesky