I ve worked on many different mobile phone security projects over the years including spending a lot of time trying to help people with everything from mobile phone theft to dealing with spyware. I established the product security function at Panasonic Continue reading
Earlier in 2025, I was pleased to be at Bletchley Park with my colleagues who had been working on the TAIBOM project for my company. As part of this work, we had to choose two AI models to develop that Continue reading
I m a big fan of history and it is always interesting to think of the what if? scenarios. In fact there are plenty of tabletop war games and a lot of video games dedicated to playing out alternative scenarios and Continue reading
It s a nice spring Saturday in 2023 and what am I doing? I am sat inside listening to classical music and writing this instead of being outside enjoying the sunshine! But it is important… The government announcement today: Starting gun Continue reading
Today, the 15th of April 2022, marks the 110th anniversary of the tragic sinking of the RMS Titanic. In 2013, I gave a Pecha Kucha talk in the Titanic museum after the CSIT security conference on the role of the Continue reading
As the UK s Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill entered Parliament today, I had some time to reflect on how far we ve come. I was reminded today that today was a long time coming. The person who triggered this was Continue reading
Fraudsters are using the Covid-19 crisis as bait to conduct SMS scams on a global scale. Many of these criminals are adapting their existing campaigns to exploit the situation. Some of the examples we’ve seen on the twitter hashtag #covid19scamsms Continue reading
I recently wrote about the topic of SIM swapping on my company s site. This was also posted to the GSMA s Fraud Security Group blog. There has been an increase in the amount of awareness of the issue over the Continue reading
Time moves quickly in the IoT world. It seems like only five minutes since we launched the Code of Practice on Consumer IoT Security. The staff in the Secure by Design team at DCMS have been working incredibly hard to Continue reading
Today marks the launch of the Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security following a period of public consultation. You can find out more on the Department for Digital, Culture, Media Sport s (DCMS) website. The publication also means that the Continue reading