UCL InfoSec

Actual actual reality: nobody cares about his secrets. (Also, I would be hard-pressed to find that wrench for $5.)

“$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...

22.07.2025 17:18 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

06.06.2025 13:42 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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...

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...

15.05.2025 14:00 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

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...

07.04.2025 20:11 — 👍 6    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

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.

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...

20.03.2025 14:55 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

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.

06.03.2025 16:10 — 👍 22    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

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

04.03.2025 18:40 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

[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.)

31.01.2025 19:07 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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.

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...

13.01.2025 18:52 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

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).

06.01.2025 15:36 — 👍 2    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

The UCL Information Security Research Group is now on Bluesky

29.11.2024 14:57 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1