July 2011 Blog Posts (6)

(Reuters – Miyoung Kim, Jonathan Hopfner)

– South Korea’ communications regulator said Thursday hackers from China had attacked an Internet portal and blogging site operated by SK Comms, accessing the personal information of up to 35 million users in what could be the country’s biggest cyber attack so far.

The incident follows a series of hacking incidents at South Korean financial firms in recent months, exposing the…

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Want more friends and followers? Emerging enterprises will create them for you – for a price. An abundance of low-cost, freelance labor online is posing huge challenges for Internet companies trying to combat the growing abuse of their services, and has created a virtual testbed for emerging industries built to assist a range of cybercrime activities, new research shows.

Free services like Craigslist,…

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Now that all the high school graduations are over and the backyard barbeques celebrated, I’m finally coming down from the contact high of all that youthful exuberance and optimism.

It’s easy to get swept up into those good feelings. But now as I move into summer’s quieter months, I can’t help thinking about the high school students I taught in a county penitentiary and what “commencement” meant for them.

Success never came easily to my students. Why should it? They came from…

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Read all about crime and the media. This is the first book to mention superinjunctions. The book also features the whole background about the phone hacking scandal involving News of the World. Read more about the PCC and how they continuously found 'no evidence' that clandestine recording devices were being used by the News of the World. The book is published by Routledge, 2011.

Hey all, been a bit of downtiime for me lately but back into the academic arena again late next year. Ill be much more invovled in the site from now on I hope!

 

Is anyone studying at, or has done so at Surrey on the MSc Criminology, Criminal Justice and Social Research?

 

 

Most people who embark on a PhD get asked lots of questions about various PhD issues so here's my quick guide to surviving the PhD:



Applying



Choose the right institution and department/school. Research the department/school first, speak to other people who are/have been postgraduates there. Explore their facilities, training, opportunities to publish, support after the PhD and teaching opportunities. Consider who would supervise you and remember “better the devil you know”… Continue