The Cyber Briefing

The task of keeping digital communications secure is one of the biggest challenges we have as a modern society, but now quantum security is bringing the power of physics into the mix to get ahead of the game– Lancaster’s Professor Rob Young breaks it down.

The challenge of distinguishing between real and synthetic content has become almost impossible – hear Dr Sophie Nightingaleexplain more about the fascinating work taking place to tackle fake content online and test your own ability to hear the difference between ‘fake news’ and the real deal.

Basil Germond, Professor of International Security, and a specialist in sea power and maritime security explores the relationship between the sea, people, the environment, and states, security and defence. In this podcast he explains why it is important to stay one step ahead of the disrupters in this ‘forgotten’ space.

Radicalisation, trolling, cyberbullying, and online grooming - Dr Claire Hardaker Senior Lecturer in Forensic Corpus Linguistics explains how researchers are taking a forensic linguistic approach to tackle some of the most hard-to-crack antisocial behaviour and online crime.