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08/30/2023
Exploring Cybercriminal Activities, Behaviors and Profiles
While modern society benefits from a range of technological advancements...
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07/06/2023
It's more than just money: The real-world harms from ransomware attacks
As cyber-attacks continue to increase in frequency and sophistication, o...
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05/12/2023
aedFaCT: Scientific Fact-Checking Made Easier via Semi-Automatic Discovery of Relevant Expert Opinions
In this highly digitised world, fake news is a challenging problem that ...
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11/09/2022
Improving Performance of Automatic Keyword Extraction (AKE) Methods Using PoS-Tagging and Enhanced Semantic-Awareness
Automatic keyword extraction (AKE) has gained more importance with the i...
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08/17/2022
A Survey of User Perspectives on Security and Privacy in a Home Networking Environment
The security and privacy of smart home systems, particularly from a home...
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06/08/2022
"You Just Assume It Is In There, I Guess": UK Families' Application And Knowledge Of Smart Home Cyber Security
The Internet of Things (IoT) is increasingly present in many family home...
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06/05/2022
Perspectives of Non-Expert Users on Cyber Security and Privacy: An Analysis of Online Discussions on Twitter
Current research on users` perspectives of cyber security and privacy re...
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03/18/2022
Are You Robert or RoBERTa? Deceiving Online Authorship Attribution Models Using Neural Text Generators
Recently, there has been a rise in the development of powerful pre-train...
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02/02/2022
A Comparison of Online Hate on Reddit and 4chan: A Case Study of the 2020 US Election
The rapid integration of the Internet into our daily lives has led to ma...
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12/16/2021
It was hard to find the words: Using an Autoethnographic Diary Study to Understand the Difficulties of Smart Home Cyber Security Practices
This study considers how well an autoethnographic diary study helps as a...
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08/06/2021
When Googling it doesn't work: The challenge of finding security advice for smart home devices
As users increasingly introduce Internet-connected devices into their ho...
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07/22/2021
Out of the Shadows: Analyzing Anonymous' Twitter Resurgence during the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests
Recently, there had been little notable activity from the once prominent...
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07/09/2021
SherLOCKED: A Detective-themed Serious Game for Cyber Security Education
Gamification and Serious Games are progressively being used over a host ...
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07/08/2021
Privacy Concerns in Chatbot Interactions: When to Trust and When to Worry
Through advances in their conversational abilities, chatbots have starte...
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07/08/2021
Remote Working Pre- and Post-COVID-19: An Analysis of New Threats and Risks to Security and Privacy
COVID-19 has radically changed society as we know it. To reduce the spre...
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06/28/2021
Developing a cyber security culture: Current practices and future needs
While the creation of a strong security culture has been researched and ...
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06/15/2021
StockBabble: A Conversational Financial Agent to support Stock Market Investors
We introduce StockBabble, a conversational agent designed to support und...
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05/07/2021
The Shadowy Lives of Emojis: An Analysis of a Hacktivist Collective's Use of Emojis on Twitter
Emojis have established themselves as a popular means of communication i...
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05/06/2021
Profiling the Cybercriminal: A Systematic Review of Research
As cybercrime becomes one of the most significant threats facing society...
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02/28/2021
Cybersecurity Awareness
Cybersecurity awareness can be viewed as the level of appreciation, unde...
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09/19/2020
A framework for effective corporate communication after cyber security incidents
A major cyber security incident can represent a cyber crisis for an orga...
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08/26/2020
#ISIS vs #ActionCountersTerrorism: A Computational Analysis of Extremist and Counter-extremist Twitter Narratives
The rapid expansion of cyberspace has greatly facilitated the strategic ...
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08/11/2020
The Data that Drives Cyber Insurance: A Study into the Underwriting and Claims Processes
Cyber insurance is a key component in risk management, intended to trans...
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08/11/2020
Security should be there by default: Investigating how journalists perceive and respond to risks from the Internet of Things
Journalists have long been the targets of both physical and cyber-attack...
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06/21/2020
Cyber Security in the Age of COVID-19: A Timeline and Analysis of Cyber-Crime and Cyber-Attacks during the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic was a remarkable unprecedented event which altered...
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06/15/2020
Behind the Mask: A Computational Study of Anonymous' Presence on Twitter
The hacktivist group Anonymous is unusual in its public-facing nature. U...
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05/26/2020
Is your chatbot GDPR compliant? Open issues in agent design
Conversational agents open the world to new opportunities for human inte...
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01/29/2020
Developing an Augmented Reality Tourism App through User-Centred Design (Extended Version)
Augmented Reality (AR) bridges the gap between the physical and virtual ...
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09/29/2019
The Social and Psychological Impact of Cyber-Attacks
Cyber-attacks have become as commonplace as the Internet itself. Each ye...
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08/09/2019
Catching the Phish: Detecting Phishing Attacks using Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
The emergence of online services in our daily lives has been accompanied...
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06/23/2019
Developing cybersecurity education and awareness programmes for Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
Purpose: An essential component of an organisation's cybersecurity strat...
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05/15/2019
Understanding the Radical Mind: Identifying Signals to Detect Extremist Content on Twitter
The Internet and, in particular, Online Social Networks have changed the...
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05/13/2019
Smartwatch games: Encouraging privacy-protective behaviour in a longitudinal study
While the public claim concern for their privacy, they frequently appear...
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05/12/2019
The Language of Biometrics: Analysing Public Perceptions
There is an increasing shift in technology towards biometric solutions, ...
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04/02/2019
Lab Hackathons to Overcome Laboratory Equipment Shortages in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges
Equipment shortages in Africa undermine Science, Technology, Engineering...
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04/02/2019
A Review of Critical Infrastructure Protection Approaches: Improving Security through Responsiveness to the Dynamic Modelling Landscape
As new technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) are integrated ...
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03/12/2019
Definition of Internet of Things (IoT) Cyber Risk Discussion on a Transformation Roadmap for Standardisation of Regulations Risk Maturity Strategy Design and Impact Assessment
A comparative empirical analysis is performed to define a high-level pot...
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03/08/2019
Methodology for Designing Decision Support Systems for Visualising and Mitigating Supply Chain Cyber Risk from IoT Technologies
This paper proposes a methodology for designing decision support systems...
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02/19/2019
Cybercrime Investigators are Users Too! Understanding the Socio-Technical Challenges Faced by Law Enforcement
Cybercrime investigators face numerous challenges when policing online c...
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01/29/2019
A semi-supervised approach to message stance classification
Social media communications are becoming increasingly prevalent; some us...
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01/09/2019
Cyber Security Awareness Campaigns: Why do they fail to change behaviour?
The present paper focuses on Cyber Security Awareness Campaigns, and aim...
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01/07/2019
The Group Element of Cybercrime: Types, Dynamics, and Criminal Operations
While cybercrime can often be an individual activity pursued by lone hac...
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11/15/2018
Cybercrime and You: How Criminals Attack and the Human Factors That They Seek to Exploit
Cybercrime is a significant challenge to society, but it can be particul...
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11/08/2018
Security Risk Assessment in Internet of Things Systems
Information security risk assessment methods have served us well over th...
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09/16/2018
A Storm in an IoT Cup: The Emergence of Cyber-Physical Social Machines
The concept of social machines is increasingly being used to characteris...
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08/22/2018
Are we there yet? Understanding the challenges faced in complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), enforced from 25th May...
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07/17/2018
Sonification in security operations centres: what do security practitioners think?
In Security Operations Centres (SOCs) security practitioners work using ...
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07/17/2018
Using semantic clustering to support situation awareness on Twitter: The case of World Views
In recent years, situation awareness has been recognised as a critical p...
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07/16/2018
"Privacy is the Boring Bit": User Perceptions and Behaviour in the Internet-of-Things
In opinion polls, the public frequently claim to value their privacy. Ho...
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07/16/2018