Senior lecturer/associate professor in Cyber Security at the University of Birmingham

Joined January 2013
Exciting research by @Inutza16 , @TomChothia @icboureanu, Chris Newton Li Chen, practical_emv.gitlab.io/ @IEEESSP 2022 -- frontpage news: bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58…. Part of Timetrust, a project funded by @NCSC , with @UniOfSurrey @SCCS_UniSurrey , @unibirmingham @UoB_SecPriv
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Using Python's machine learning library, I whipped up a quick election model. I ran the model 40,000 times, and in each simulation, the string "hello world!" printed on the screen and nothing else.
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Presented a novel methodology of improving protocol specifications by modelling attacks, joint work with Jose Moreira, @TomChothia, and @MarkDRyan "Modelling of Attacks on 802.11 4-way Handshake and Analysis of Security Properties" at STM2020 @ESORICS2020 iit.cnr.it/stm2020/
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Tom Chothia retweeted
Here our the top 3 teams from our second What the CTF! Thank you so much to everyone who took part and a HUUUGE thanks to: Andreea, James, Justin, Kit, Tom, Richard, Connor and Louis for making it happen.
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Had a great time talking about #digitaldeath to the wonderful group @UoB_SecPriv ! Got some provocative and useful questions too. Thanks @Inutza16 for hosting me!
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A petition: Universities and professional societies should reduce expectations of air travel. chng.it/b4GwMWtYVw
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Tom Chothia retweeted
Some *very* exciting news! 🥁 We are so incredibly proud to announce that we have won the @tryhackme Women in Security prize, sponsored by @CTXIS ! It's so great to see the number of women growing in our hacking club!
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Tom Chothia retweeted
Good evening spent on a secure coding CTF by @OWASPBirmingham and @SecCodeWarrior ! 4/4 placed in top10 players 🙈🐵
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First session of the term, what a great turnout! Excited to see so many people interested in cyber security! Happy hacking! #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth
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Today I'm speaking at ATM & Cyber Security 2019 rbrlondon.com/conferences/ac… I've just seen a great talk on "hacking" ATMs using high explosives!
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Tom Chothia retweeted
We've had an amazing year and you can read all about it in our end of term update! birmingham.ac.uk/university/… If you enjoyed being a part of #AFNOM or participating in any of the CTF competitions, including our very own #WTCTF, please nominate us for the EPS Societies' Awards! 🐵
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Tom Chothia retweeted
Our work (@_EduardMarin_ @TomChothia et al) on Medtronic Implantable Cardiac Devices has triggered a FDA safety alert: fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safet… medtronic.com/content/dam/me…
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This Saturday there is a CTF organised by Birmingham students!
We made a little video about our CTF on Saturday!
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Replying to @TomChothia
@TomChothia @halfdoof I know you'd do the same for me
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Tom Chothia retweeted
I want to share a thought about cryptography and business. It's something I've hit upon a lot lately, in consulting, research, and responsible disclosure contexts: if you are a company and crypto is core to your business, then you need to hire some damn cryptographers.
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Shout out to Universities in the West Midlands looking at Cybersecurity! Please retweet, like, reply or tag others interested in joining and connecting with our @OWASPBirmingham community! /cc @cmaple @UoB_SecPriv @paulbradshaw @BCUComputing
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Today I'll be presenting our (@cypherpunknl , Ben Smyth) work on the analysis of distance bounding protocols @USENIXSecurity. Full details, our paper and checking tool are available here: bit.ly/2MloEMA.
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