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  • Virus Bulletin says a fond farewell and thank you to Martijn Grooten

    Thirteen years ago, VB was searching for a web developer to join the very small team based in Oxfordshire, UK. A CV came in from one Martijn Grooten, a former Ph.D. student in mathematics with little practical experience but a lot of promising skills. He interviewed well and was offered the job. Martijn was a…

  • Parting thoughts 5: bringing the good news

    At the end of this month, I will step down as Editor of Virus Bulletin. Before doing so, I have been sharing some ‘parting thoughts’ in five blog posts, based on my experience working in the IT security industry. This is the final post in the series, the previous ones were: ‘ cybersecurity as a…

  • Parting thoughts 3: taking security seriously

    At the end of this month, I will step down as Editor of Virus Bulletin. Before I do so, I will share some ‘parting thoughts’ in five blog posts, based on my experience working in the IT security industry. ‘Cyber terror threat!’ was the headline of a press release a security vendor’s marketing team sent…

  • Parting thoughts 2: the need for education in security

    At the end of this month, I will step down as Editor of Virus Bulletin. Before I do so, I will share some ‘parting thoughts’ in five blog posts, based on my experience working in the IT security industry. Education has long been an important part of security: from security evangelists giving security advice in…

  • Parting thoughts 1: cybersecurity as a social science

    At the end of this month, I will step down as Editor of Virus Bulletin. This week, I will share some ‘parting thoughts’ in five blog posts, based on my experience working in the IT security industry. One of the defining moments of this decade in security was the 2017 WannaCry attack. Most people working…

  • AfricaHackon 2019: a great event and a reminder that security is global

    It was a few years ago that I first learned of AfricaHackon , Africa’s premier IT security conference. It led me to invite Tyrus Kamau, one of the event’s organisers, to speak at VB2017 in Madrid in a presentation that was very well received. This year, this invitation was returned and thus I travelled to…

  • AfricaHackon 2019: a great event and a reminder that security is global

    It was a few years ago that I first learned of AfricaHackon , Africa’s premier IT security conference. It led me to invite Tyrus Kamau, one of the event’s organisers, to speak at VB2017 in Madrid in a presentation that was very well received. This year, this invitation was returned and thus I travelled to…