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Apple and Starbucks could have avoided being hacked if they'd taken this simple step (2015)
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Buchanan, W. J. (2015). Apple and Starbucks could have avoided being hacked if they'd taken this simple step

Apple and Starbucks are two of the world’s most trusted companies, but their reputations were recently tarnished thanks to some novice cybersecurity mistakes. Both setup systems that could have allowed hackers to break into customers' accounts by rep... Read More about Apple and Starbucks could have avoided being hacked if they'd taken this simple step.

Edinburgh leading world in beating online crime (2015)
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Buchanan, W. J. (2015). Edinburgh leading world in beating online crime. [Print & Digital]

Cyber security surges ahead in the capital, says Bill Buchanan As we become more dependent on the internet by the day, the risks around it also increase, especially from cyber crime, large-scale data loss and the failure of our critical IT infrastruc... Read More about Edinburgh leading world in beating online crime.

Mobilfunk 5G Die ferngesteuerte Welt (2015)
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Thuemmler, C. (2015). Mobilfunk 5G Die ferngesteuerte Welt. [http://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/hannovermesse/mobilfunk-5g-die-ferngesteuerte-welt/11615084-all.html]

Erst die neue Mobilfunkgeneration 5G soll den Durchbruch für die Industrie 4.0 bringen. Während die Forschung schon um die ersten Patente wetteifert, fürchten Kritiker das Ende der Netzneutralität

The Tour de Maths Reaches Out in Cornwall (2015)
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Guiver, C., Mueller, M., Lloyd, S., & Townley, S. (2015). The Tour de Maths Reaches Out in Cornwall

Lenovo’s security debacle reveals blurred boundary between adware and malware (2015)
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Buchanan, W. J. (2015). Lenovo’s security debacle reveals blurred boundary between adware and malware

A widely disliked habit of PC vendors is their bundling of all manner of unwanted software into brand new computers – demo software, games, or part-functional trials. Faced with shrinking margins vendors have treated this as an alternative income str... Read More about Lenovo’s security debacle reveals blurred boundary between adware and malware.

If Obama is talking about securing the net, it should be on everyone else’s lips too. (2015)
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Buchanan, W. J. (2015). If Obama is talking about securing the net, it should be on everyone else’s lips too

We have spent years promoting the need for change in our approach to internet infrastructure, forcing politicians to recognise it as a serious issue. So it’s great to see Barack Obama tackling the issue in his State of the Union address. You may agre... Read More about If Obama is talking about securing the net, it should be on everyone else’s lips too..

If you seek to ‘switch off’ encryption, you may as well switch off the whole internet. (2015)
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Buchanan, W. J. (2015). If you seek to ‘switch off’ encryption, you may as well switch off the whole internet

Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the UK government will look at “switching off” some forms of encryption in order to make society safer from terror attacks. This might make a grand statement but it is impossible to implement and extremely... Read More about If you seek to ‘switch off’ encryption, you may as well switch off the whole internet..

How the love of one teenager brought Tweetdeck to its knees. (2014)
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Buchanan, W. J. (2014). How the love of one teenager brought Tweetdeck to its knees

TweetDeck, a Twitter app with millions of users, is back online after a rather surprising security scare. For several hours, the service was taken down all because a 19-year-old user tried to add a cute heart to his messages.

Traffic light hacking shows the Internet of Things must come with better security. (2014)
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Buchanan, W. J. (2014). Traffic light hacking shows the Internet of Things must come with better security

The growing extent to which our day-to-day infrastructure is computer-controlled and internet-connected leaves it open to the possibility that malicious hackers could intercept data or take control of devices. Often this sort of critical infrastructu... Read More about Traffic light hacking shows the Internet of Things must come with better security..

What a Hitchhiking Robot Can Teach Us About Automated Coworkers (2014)
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Zeller, F., & Smith, D. H. (2014). What a Hitchhiking Robot Can Teach Us About Automated Coworkers. [Online article]

Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications. (2014)
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Buchanan, W. J. (2014). Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications

We have always been been intrigued by keeping secrets and uncovering the secrets of others, whether that’s childhood secret messages, or secrets and codebreaking of national importance. With a film, The Imitation Game, reprising the life of Alan Turi... Read More about Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications..

Better locks to secure our data are the inevitable result of too many prying eyes (2014)
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Buchanan, W. J. (2014). Better locks to secure our data are the inevitable result of too many prying eyes

Robert Hannigan, the new head of British signals intelligence agency GCHQ, has accused technology companies of aiding terrorists and criminals by providing them secure communications through their products and networks. Far from adopting a conciliato... Read More about Better locks to secure our data are the inevitable result of too many prying eyes.

In cybersecurity, the weakest link is … you (2014)
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Buchanan, W. J. (2014). In cybersecurity, the weakest link is … you

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Computer security relies on a great number of links, hardware, software and something else altogether: you. The greatest threat to information security is actually people. Why strive to defeat encrypted... Read More about In cybersecurity, the weakest link is … you.

When the ATM runs Windows, how safe is your money? (2014)
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Buchanan, W. J. (2014). When the ATM runs Windows, how safe is your money?

How safe is Microsoft Windows? After all, the list of malware that has caused major headaches worldwide over the last 15 years is long – viruses, worms and Trojans have forced computers to shut down, knocked South Korea offline and even overloaded Go... Read More about When the ATM runs Windows, how safe is your money?.

iWorm hack shows Macs are vulnerable too (2014)
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Buchanan, W. J. (2014). iWorm hack shows Macs are vulnerable too

The computer operating systems and applications we use today have often evolved over many years, decades even, and contain tens or hundreds of millions of lines of code. Flaws in that code – and there will always be some – give rise to security probl... Read More about iWorm hack shows Macs are vulnerable too.

The Hitchbot’s guide to travelling across a continent (2014)
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Zeller, F., & Smith, D. H. (2014). The Hitchbot’s guide to travelling across a continent. [Online article]

A cloudy end to a testing routine. (2010)
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Thuemmler, C. (2010). A cloudy end to a testing routine

Societal change and novel technologies are driving the evolution of healthcare systems. Cloud computing has the potential to support current structural changes in healthcare in the UK and elsewhere.

The secret life of the immune system: inspiring pervasive systems (2009)
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Hart, E. (2009). The secret life of the immune system: inspiring pervasive systems

The immune system performs more than simply defence and exploiting its additional functionality can lead to the design of better pervasive adaptive systems.