Accountability & Ethics in a Digital Ecosystem Workshop

SPRITE+ Announces Digital Technologies, Power & Control Challenge Working Group!

Early Career Researchers Informal (Virtual) Meetings

New Learning Resources Available

SPRITEHub Digital TIPS Glossary

New Job Opportunities Added

New Funding Calls

Recent Digital TIPS Publications

Online Panel: the Triumph of the Countryside?

Special Issue "Techniques and Protocols to Preserve and Enhance Privacy"

COVID-19: The Internet of Things and Cybersecurity

Annual Conference Virtual Seminar Series: Serious Organised Crime

PeepSec 2020 with SPRITE+

Research Associate Needed - Human-AI Explainable Security Focus

Research Associate Needed - AI Security Assessment Focus

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Our member, Karin Moser, is part of a high level online panel, preseting on remote work and human computer interaction.

A full podcast with slides will be available here: https://www.curem.uzh.ch/de/events/Online-Panel-3-The-triumph-of-the-countryside.html

The live event happens on 17th of June 2020, 16.30 – 18.00 CET.

Our Expert Fellow, Siamak F. Shahandashti, is an editor on a special issue of Cryptography (ISSN 2410-387X).

If you have relevant materials to submit, please follow this link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cryptography/special_issues/Preserve_Enhance_Privacy.

Deadline: 30 July 2020.

PETRAS National Centre of Excellence has published their 9th issue dedicated to COVID-19, cybersecurity, and the Internet of Things.

You can view their short briefings on current and previous issues here: https://petras-iot.org/update/covid-19-the-internet-of-things-and-cybersecurity/

Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) will be hosting their 8th virtual seminar on the topic of Serious Organised Crime: Answering the Home Office’s call for evidence.

Join on 25 June 2020 at 11:00-12:30 via Zoom.

For more info and to register: http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/events/annual-conference-serious-organised-crime/

Several SPRITE+ Members, Expert Fellows and Project Partners, including our director Professor Emma Barrett OBE, Dr Jonathan Foster (University of Sheffield), Dr Julie Gore (University of Bath) and Julie Dawson (Yoti) took part in the PeepSec summit last week.

Emma was interviewed for the community session and Jonathan, Julie and Julie led a panel discussion on accountability and ethics in the digital ecosystem.

More info and access to the sessions is here: https://www.peepsec.com/

The successful candidate will join King's College London and work on the 3-year EPSRC-funded project “SAIS: Secure AI Assistants” with our Expert Fellow Dr Jose Such.

More info here: https://my.corehr.com/pls/kingrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=1&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=030830

The successful candidate will join King's College London and work on the 3-year EPSRC-funded project “SAIS: Secure AI Assistants” with our Expert Fellow Dr Jose Such.

More info here: https://my.corehr.com/pls/kingrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=1&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=030770

https://spritehub.org/2020/04/17/accountability-ethics-in-a-digital-ecosystem/

A big thank you to everyone who was involved in organising and participating in the first Accountability & Ethics in a Digital Ecosystem (ACCEDE) Challenge Working Group (CWG) workshop on 9 June.

The CWG exists to develop research partnerships, engage stakeholders and advance research themes and questions for this challenge.

We had a good mix of academics and practitioners on the day and the workshop has without doubt contributed to laying the groundwork for taking this SPRITE+ challenge forward.

https://spritehub.org/2020/04/28/digital-technologies-power-control/

Digital Technologies, Power and Control Challenge Working Group is led by Dr Lara Frumkin (The Open University), Dr Kovila Coopamootoo (Newcastle University), Dr Sabine Little (University of Sheffield) and Dr Vitor Jesus (Birmingham City University).

The group employs an action research model to solicit wide participation in societal decisions relying on theory, research and current practice from multiple academic and non-academic perspectives.

Check the group's dedicated webpage to find out more.

https://spritehub.org/early-career-researchers-resources/

We are now conducting regular ECR meetings. The first one already went well, with a good mixture of people across gender, ethnicity, discipline and stage of ECR career.

Keep an eye out for https://spritehub.org/early-career-researchers-resources/ where we publish when the next meeting takes place, and the link to get there.

https://spritehub.org/learning-resources-for-digital-tips/

We regularly update our learning resources page with links to free courses, exercises and activities which teach and test skills related to digital TIPS.

With this update, we've added a separate section for interactive experiences - card-based games, and even a couple of browser games. Just scroll half-way down the page to see them.

https://spritehub.org/spritehub-glossary/

We have scoured the Internet to bring you good sources of common terms across digital trust, identity, privacy, and security. From FinTech to cybersecurity, this list contains over 300 terms, definitions, and links to sources where you can learn more about each term.

https://spritehub.org/jobs-and-career-development-opportunities/

We have added a number of career opportunities to our "jobs and career development" page, from new jobs for research assistants and associates, to several PhD studentships. Take a look.

https://spritehub.org/funding-calls/

We have added new funding calls to SPRITEHub, including the latest one from PETRAS - 2nd Strategic Research Fund (SRF). Take a look.

Submit yours at any time to admin@spritehub.org, and we will include it in the next newsletter.

Here's the latest collection of publications by SPRITE+ members and beyond. Submit yours at any time to admin@spritehub.org, and we will include it in the next newsletter.

Jason R.C. Nurse et al. (2020) "The Data that Drives Cyber Insurance: A Study into the Underwriting and Claims Processes", 2020 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA), IEEE. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/80965/

Jason R.C. Nurse (2020) "Working from home risks online security and privacy – how to stay protected", The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/working-from-home-risks-online-security-and-privacy-how-to-stay-protected-134599

Jason R.C. Nurse, Interviewed for BBC Future article "How your smart home devices can be turned against you", published 12 May 2020, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200511-how-smart-home-devices-are-being-used-for-domestic-abuse.

Saira Ghafur, 10 June 2020. Healthcare cybersecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a threat too important to forget. https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/blog/ighi/2020/06/10/healthcare-cybersecurity-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-threat-too-important-to-forget/

Radanliev, P., De Roure, D., Page, K. et al. Cyber risk at the edge: current and future trends on cyber risk analytics and artificial intelligence in the industrial internet of things and industry 4.0 supply chains. Cybersecur 3, 13 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42400-020-00052-8

Andrew Whittaker, James Densley, Karin S. Moser. No two gangs are alike: The digital divide in street gangs’ differential adaptations to social media, Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 110, 2020, 106403, ISSN 0747-5632, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106403. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563220301564)

Christina Katsini, Yasmeen Abdrabou, George E. Raptis, Mohamed Khamis, Florian Alt. The Role of Eye Gaze in Security and Privacy Applications: Survey and Future HCI Research Directions. Publication: CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. April 2020. Pages 1–21 https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376840.
You can get the PDF paper here: http://www.mkhamis.com/data/papers/katsini2020chi.pdf
The video presentation version is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Cup8lquMI


Paper from the recent IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Awards:

X. Li, J. Peng, M. S. Obaidat, F. Wu, M. K. Khan and C. Chen, "A Secure Three-Factor User Authentication Protocol With Forward Secrecy for Wireless Medical Sensor Network Systems," in IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 39-50, March 2020, doi: 10.1109/JSYST.2019.2899580.

S. Hijazi and M. S. Obaidat, "A New Detection and Prevention System for ARP Attacks Using Static Entry," in IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 2732-2738, Sept. 2019, doi: 10.1109/JSYST.2018.2880229.

M. Saad, J. Choi, D. Nyang, J. Kim and A. Mohaisen, "Toward Characterizing Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrencies for Highly Accurate Predictions," in IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 321-332, March 2020, doi: 10.1109/JSYST.2019.2927707.