Press

Press

2024

• BBC Reporting Scotland (TV), BBC News website, covered deepfakes used in romance scams (December 2024).
• BBC Reporting Scotland (TV), BBC News website, covered work on improving accessibility for blind gamers (July 2024).

2023

• STV News at 6 (TV), TayFM (radio, social media), The Courier, Evening Telegraph covered the installation of the “Gone Smishing” game at Dundee Science Centre (October 2023).
• Tech Xplore – “A review of existing studies investigating online romance fraud” Based on the Tainted Love systematic review paper (April 2023).
• The Times – “Researchers invent tool to help detect ‘romance scam’ fraudsters online” (February 2023). Also featured in The Courier (front page), and on BBC Radio Scotland – John Beattie’s Drivetime.

2022

• Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg Germany - Cyber Quarter der Abertay University und LaS³ im regen Austausch (June 2022).

2021

• ENDS Report - Access denied: SEPA's battle to restore operations in the aftermath of a crippling cyber-attack (April 2021).
• The Courier - How cyber criminals used Covid to target our anxieties (March 2021). Also featured in The Scotsman.

2020

• Cybercriminals playing on heightened sense of fear during pandemic, report warns. Based on the research output "The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for cybercrime policing in Scotland". Reported on by a number of media outlets including The Scotsman, Scottish Daily Mail, The Herald, Police Professional, Evening Express, The Courier, Manchester Evening News, Evening Telegraph, Press and Journal, The Sunday Post.

2019

• Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg Germany - Usable Security Researchers aus Dundee zu Gast in Regensburg (June 2019).

2018

• STV News Dundee - The arrival of an American software company in Dundee is being hailed as a significant boost to its reputation in the sector (July 2018). Also covered by the Evening Telegraph.
• Aberdeenshire Council - Kids create winning software solutions to help themselves flourish in a digital world (June 2018).
• Scottish Business News Network - Glasgow selected for 2020 World Congress on Computational Intelligence. (April 2018). Also covered by the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers Limited, Glasgow Convention Bureau, and Association Meetings International.

2017

• The Courier - Pupils to be warned about impact of social media posts. (December 2017). Also covered in the Evening Telegraph.
• The Courier - Experts and charities urge caution as location-sharing Snap Map goes live. (June 2017).
• The Courier - Explained: How do I change my Snap Map location settings?. (June 2017).

2016

• Evening Telegraph - Abertay lecture will warn of fridge hacking risk. (December 2016). Also covered in The Courier, Acumin, and the Holyrood Magazine.