KIRCCS News

The Centre of Research and Education in Forensic Psychology at the University of Kent has been awarded a grant from End Violence's Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund. The project, 'Understanding and improving help-seeking by people at risk of perpetrating online child sexual exploitation and abuse', will explore interventions that aim to reach those people who are at r...

A team of researchers at the University of Kent has received funding from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS) for a new project entitled ‘Ransomware: The role of Cyber Insurance (RaCI)’. The project’s Kent Principal Investigator is Dr Jason Nurse, Senior Lecturer (Asso...

Dr Jason R.C. Nurse, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the School of Computing and Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), will take part in Sophos' Security SOS Week, which runs from Monday 13 to Thursday 16 September 2021. During Security SOS Week, four top security experts will share their expertise in a series of daily 40-minute podcast interviews by Sophos Senior Technologist, Paul Ducklin. On Wedne...

Three members of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) at the University of Kent, Dr Virginia Franqueira and Professor Shujun Li from the School of Computing, and Dr Vince Miller from the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR), have been awarded funding for a new project that aims to understand how cyber security skills development is currently covered...

A new research report by the University of Kent and the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) has found that the contribution of the insurance sector to improving cyber security practice is 'more limited than policymakers and businesses might hope' and recommends action by government and industry. Identified along climate change and pandemics as 'one of the most challenging r...

Ransomware is a growing threat as seen with the recent incident involving meat processing company JBS paying the equivalent of $11m (£7.8m) in cryptocurrency to cyber hackers. Dr Budi Arief, a cyber-crime expert from the University's School of Computing provides comment on how to best manage a ransomware attack or avoid one altogether. He said: 'The latest incident involving JBS demonstrates the real difficulties faced by victi...

This year's Kent Cyber Security Forum (KCSF 2021), hosted by the University of Kent's newly established Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), will provide insights into staying safe online against cyber criminals, how cybercrime and cyber attacks are investigated, and how to avoid the dangers of false information online and other types of online harm. Taking place virtually on Monday 28 June (10.00-16.00...

A book co-authored by Professor Shujun Li, Director of Kent's Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) and Professor of Cyber Security at the School of Computing, entitled Cognitive Modeling for Automated Human Performance Evaluation at Scale, has made it to BookAuthority’s list of the 10 best new Human-Computer Interaction books. BookAut...

Dr Jason Nurse, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) from the School of Computing and Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) has contributed to a new government-commissioned Ipsos MORI report, which is being used to influence government policy on regulating consumer smart product cyber security. The Ipsos MORI report, titled 'Consumer Attitudes Towards IoT security' reve...

Professor Shujun Li, Director of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) and Professor of Cyber Security at School of Computing, has co-authored an article entitled 'CogTool+: Modeling human performance at large scale', which has recently  been published in the top tier computer science journal  ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. The journal is considered the No 1 journal in the sub-area of computer-human interacti...