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  • Coverage of our work on Game Cheats and Anti-Cheats includes:
    • Windows kernel defenses aren't enough to stop a lucrative game cheating market, research shows, TechXplore, 21 Oct 2024
    • People cheat in online games like Fortnite, Valorant and Apex Legends, and researchers just figured out how, The Debrief, 23 Oct 2024
    • Video game cheating market on the rise, 80 websites rake in up to $73.2 million: Study, Indian Express, 23 Oct 2024
    • New Study Claims to Reveal Games With the Best Anti-Cheat Software, Game Rant, 31 Oct 2024
    • Valorant is winning the war against PC gaming cheaters, The Verge, 4 Nov 2024

  • Coverage of our work on ApplePay Visa EMV security includes:
    • Researchers find Apple Pay, Visa contactless hack, BBC New, 30 Sept 2021
    • Apple Pay users ‘vulnerable to security hack', The Times, 30 Sept 2021
    • Apple Pay's Visa flaw risks letting hackers drain money from iPhones, The Telegraph, 30 Sept 2021
    • Your Apple Pay payments can be stolen over the air - here's what to do, Tom's Guide, 30 Sept 2021

  • Coverage of our work on TLS in apps includes:
    • HSBC, Natwest and Co-op Bank fix app security flaws that put customers at risk for up to a year, The Telegraph, 6 Dec 2017
    • Hackers' delight: Mobile bank app security flaw could have smacked millions, The Register, 11 Dec 2016
    • Newly created tool spots TLS vulnerability in major banking and VPN apps, SC magazine, 6 Dec 2017

  • Coverage of our investigation of pacemaker security includes:
    • Fatal flaws in found in medical implant software, The BBC, 1 Dec 2016
    • NHS implants can be hacked and made to kill, The Times (paywall), 6 Dec 2016
    • Fatal flaws in ten pacemakers make for Denial of Life attacks, The Register, 1 Dec 2016

  • Coverage of our investigation of BitTorrent monitoring includes:
    • BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored, BBC, September 4, 2012
    • Someone's probably watching you downloading that film, file-sharers warned, The Independent, September 5, 2012
    • BitTorrent file-sharing users, good and bad, being monitored: study, NBC News, September 5, 2012
    • Most illegal downloaders 'are being tracked', The Telegraph, September 5, 2012
    • Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders, New Scientist, September 4, 2012
  • Coverage our work on the security of e-passports:
    • Defects in e-passports allow real-time tracking, The Register, Jan 26, 2010.
    • University of Birmingham - Passport to oblivion, The Times Higher Education, 28 January 2010,
  • Cyber Security Education:
    • Student code breakers set cyber security challenge, The Times Higher Education, 20th January 2013,
  • Security, GCHQ & Society:
    • City lecturer's guide to avoid being target of webcam spies, Birmingham Post, 8th March 2014,
    • A piece I wrote in light of GCHQ collecting web cam images: How to protect yourself when GCHQ goes for your webcam, The Conversation, 3rd March 2014
    • A piece I wrote in light of UK government forcing the Guardian to destroy data: Explainer: how do you destroy a hard drive?, The Conversation, 23rd August 2013
    • Converage of an industrial control systems security projects that I am involved with: £2.5m funding boost for protecting rail networks, power stations from cyber attack, ZDNet, 7th October 2014
    • What would save the music industry from digital piracy?, Debating Europe, 26th June 2015