My main areas of interest are around online crime and criminal activity and how technology supports them. I have a strong interest in social media platforms, including virtual worlds and federated systems. I'm also interested in concepts and understanding of trust in relation to digital data as evidence.
Lecturing is mostly in the CyberSecurity area and I developed modules for the Computer Science with Cybersecurity online programme.
Currently supervising work on online money laundering. Keen to talk to prospective PhD students about crime & technology topics.
As a possible ADHDer myself, I'm looking at innovative ways of helping neurodivergent students to achieve their full potential.
Recent papers include work on money-laundering in online games secondary markets, MetaVerse as a criminal platform, regulation and standards for digital forensics, obfuscated and encrypted mobile phones used for criminal purposes.
My ResearchGate publication archive contains copies of everything that I'm permitted to share, or pointers to where it can be found.
I'm also a regular contributor to Digital Forensics Magazine
and Absolute Lotus Magazine , and an Associate Editor for FSI:Digital Investigation.
My book on digital forensics is a little out of date, but if you really want a copy and there's the work on Digital Crime that I also contributed to
My PhD by publication tome titled Digital Evidence Regulation - an assessment of underlying issues in England and Wales
is available to download.
Chair of Board of Examiners for Computer Science online programmes
I'm also a member of the Physical Sciences Ethics committee and Computer Science Ethics committee, as well as the Professional Services Research Ethics committee
We often forget those that went before, and the lessons we can learn from them. Here are some of my favourites :
Grace Murray Hopper talking to the NSA in 1982
Douglas Englebart's Mother of all Demos
featuring the first practical WIMP interface
BSc PhD CEng FBCS CITP FRSA
Angus has worked at several Universities across the UK, lecturing in topics from software engineering, through Internet computing, to digital forensics since the mid-1990s.
He has acted as an expert witness in some major criminal cases, working with almost every police force in the UK at some point, and carries out applied research in the field of digital evidence. He also advises crime writers and TV production companies on matters of digital evidence and forensic procedure, sometimes even appearing on camera himself.
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