Professor of Economics @dmuleicester & director of @iaesv. Game theory, behavioral economics, cybersecurity, ransomware, #avfc #YouBears
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One week to go until our workshop on 'financial empowerment in deprived areas'. A great line up of speakers and guests. Looking forward to a great discussion of some complex and difficult issues. Still spaces available.
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Professors David Rae @warycat Edward Cartwright @cartwright_e and Mario Gongora present on the hugely successful KTP with @EMChamberNews that resulted in a new data powerhouse for the region @leicscastlebs
Why, as a major ransomware attack impacts the NHS, are fraud and computer misuse in the small print??? This downplaying of fraud and computer misuse needs to stop.
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"If you left out computer crime and fraud, we've halved crime" Penny Mordant
I know the question was on knife crime, but we mustn't ignore fraud, scams & computer crime! They're NOT some form of lesser victimless crime.
They destroy people's financial life, self-esteem, & devastate mental health. They leave people at risk in their own homes, scared to engage in our economy, damage businesses. They can see hospital closed down and operations stopped. #BBCdebate
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Great work from my colleagues @bbcemt covering the ongoing Inc ransomware attack on Leicester City Council. Crazy that these huge criminal hacks affecting thousands of citizens are now a part of modern life.
Very interesting article.
Turning a blind eye to worker exploitation is obviously not defensible. But better opportunities needed to be provided to affected workers when factories close.
Failure of policy.
📰 Did crying modern slavery in Leicester benefit the workers?
Without alternatives or safety nets to fall back on, closures of fast-fashion factories left workers worse off
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#Coops #IndyMedia #Leicestershire #Leicester
Lets hope the new football regulator has some teeth because this is getting ridiculous now. A complete overhaul of football financing is needed.
(And if that means we have to put up with Man City not winning the champions league every year then I think we will cope!)
The amount of clubs that are supposedly having to sell prized assets in the summer to comply with P&S rules is staggering. And the only clubs who can pick these players off???? Yes that’s right the ones who are beyond the reach of these rules now as they grew way before these rules came in… funny that
Interesting data here. Seems that Leicester ends up with a similar number of graduates as study in the area. So, no signs of a 'brain drain' out of the city.
Oh dear. This sounds bad.
Leicester City Council systems shut down after 'cyber incident' bbc.in/49HUFVS
This is spot on:
Banning economic transactions rarely/never works. And ransomware payments are far too common to easily undermine.
So, any ban needs to come hand in hand with a joined up set of complementary policies that reduce the incentives to pay.
There is no quick fix.
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It's Green Football Weekend: eight things grassroots clubs can do to reach net zero. My article for The Conversation published today: theconversation.com/green-fo… @DMUresearch @SustainableDMU @Bubi_Bubner @LeicNirvanaFc
What an inspiring and sad story. "The crazy thing is to carry on with business as usual". As someone who doesn't fly, when is academia going to start taking this seriously and (at the very least) stop incentivizing short haul flights.
We need to get better at measuring the psychological impact of fraud and cybercrime: £400 stolen (which the bank covered) but "It left me feeling so low, this man was so awful. I don't want it to happen to anybody else."
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Young people show they have better questions on climate than the politicians have answers: mark-charlton.com/2023/12/09…
#cop28 #politics #Civiclearning #climatechange #Climateaction #SDG13 #SDG16
This is a shockingly bad Brexit story:
"French national living in Leicester for 42 years faces deportation"
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UK child poverty worsening more than in other affluent nations #ChildPoverty @jrf_uk @cartwright_e @Rethinking_Webb @FightPoverty @EndChildPoverty @CPAGUK cypnow.co.uk/news/article/uk…
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Ransomware—malicious software that blocks access to data until money is handed over—is an ongoing problem. What makes people decide to pay up, and how much do they pay?
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Fantastic to see our paper on "Ransomware Economics: A Two-Step Approach To Model Ransom Paid" winning the best paper award at Ecrime2023! Congratulations to Tom Meurs for leading the research so successfully.
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