On 2 October, TU Delft are starting a new online three course series on cybersecurity economics. I am co-teaching this course with Michel van Eeten (TU Delft), Daniel Woods (University of Edinburgh), Simon Parkin (TU Delft), Rolf van Wegberg (TU Delft), Tyler Moore (Tulsa Uni) and Rainer Böhme (Innsbruck Uni). The course also features content … Continue reading Join Our 3-Course Series on Cybersecurity Economics→| Light Blue Touchpaper
Some may have noticed I have gone part-time at University College London, and plan to spend the next two years engineering and launching distributed systems as part of the Chainspace project, Vega Protocol and Kryptik. A number of people have asked me “Why would an expert on Privacy Enhancing Technologies develop such an interest in […]| Conspicuous Chatter
I am at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in Minnesota. As it is customary the conversations with other privacy researchers and developers are extremely engaging. One topic I discussed over beer with Mike Perry and Natalie Eskinazi is whether secure group messaging protocols could be simplified by relaxing some of their security and systems assumptions. In […]| Conspicuous Chatter
You know you live in 2017 when the top headline on national newspapers relates to a ransomware attack on the National Heath Service, the UK Prime minister comments on the matter, and the the security researchers dealing with the outbreak are presented as heroic figures. As ever, The Register, has the most detailed and sophisticated […]| Conspicuous Chatter