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Trickbot analysis and mitigation
Overview We analysed Trickbot during a forensics case and extracted a dropper executa...
Laws to help security and incident respo...
Last week I was invited to be a member of a panel at the UN Internet Governance Forum on h...
Incident Response Triage
Incident Response Triage – identifying, scoping and containing an incident&nbs...
This Blog is Moving...
JiscCommunity has been this blog's home for eight years, but I'm now moving over to JiscInform. That has many nice features, notably that it works really well on mobile devices, lets me provide better indexing for posts, and gi...
Incident Statistics for April 2020
These statistics only relate to information collated by Janet CSIRT and do not provide an ...
Monero mining trends and electricity con...
Cryptocurrencies are gaining traction and attention for their unrestricted, low-cost, authenticated transaction capabilities and reward for currency mining. Unlike Bitcoin, Monero (2014), aka XMR, uses a wallet ID that will not r...
Travelling with encrypted devices
Most portable devices – laptops, smartphones and memory sticks – should be enc...
Free Text and Data Protection
Collections of free text – whether in database fields, documents or email archives &...
COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition and GDPR
[Notes:This isn't legal advice, but I hope it will reassure anyone considering supporting the COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition that the data protection risks should be very low;This only covers the use of data for defending systems,...
What's the data protection difference be...
[UPDATE] a slightly revised version of this post formed our response to the ICO consultati...
How Should Education use AI?
In looking at the many ethical concerns that have been expressed about the use of Artificial Intelligence in education, it struck me that most fall at the two ends of a scale. On the one hand questions of human autonomy lead to concerns about cookie-cutter approaches, where AI treats every student according to a rigid formula; on the other hand questions about the social functi...
GDPR: Attendance Monitoring
A question recently arose about monitoring students' attendance at lectures and tutori...
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JiscCommunity has been this blog's home for eight years, but I'm now moving over to JiscInform. That has many nice features, notably that it works really well on...
[UPDATE: thanks for your feedback. Final text has now gone into the Jisc production process :)]
Jisc has been providing expert, trusted advice on digital...
These statistics only relate to information collated by Janet CSIRT and do not provide an accurate sample of security activity across the research and education...
[with thanks to a former university Head of Examinations for input and discussion]
Recent years, and weeks, have seen a move away from the traditional...
I've been reading a fascinating paper by Julia Slupska – "War, Health and...
[Notes:
- This isn't legal advice, but I hope it will reassure anyone considering supporting the...
[Notes:
- This isn't legal advice, but I hope it will reassure anyone considering supporting the...
