2023/9/6 - Disinformation

• Radio Free Asia

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2023/7/25 - Research Security

• Le Journal de Montreal - Un géant chinois soupçonné d’espionnage a tenté de recruter un prof de McGill pendant des années (A Chinese corporation suspected of engaging in espionage has been attempting to recruit a professor from McGill University for several years.)

• CJAD 800 (The Elias Makos Show)

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2023/6/5 - Risks of AI

• Interviewed by AM1430 Toronto

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2023/6/1 - 2023/6/4 - Comment on June 4 Commemoration

• Interviewed by CBC Chinese Section

• Interviewed by Epoch Times: 「勿忘六四」 蒙特利爾人中領館前譴責中共

• Interviewed by Le Journal de Montreal: Manifestation devant le consulat chinois de Montréal samedi pour dénoncer l’ingérence étrangère

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2023/3/9 - 2023/5/31 - Comment on Chinese "Police Stations" in Montreal

• Interviewed by NDTV: 涉嫌當海外110 加國兩華裔中心兼收政府資助

• Interviewed by National Post: Group suspected of hosting Chinese 'police station' received up to $200,000 in federal funding

• Interviewed by CBC TV (x2) and Radio

• Interviewed by Le Journal de Montréal

• Interviewed by Toronto Star: Ties to Beijing? Sites in Quebec ‘police station’ probe have interesting history

• Interviewed by Montreal Gazette: China may be secretly collecting data on Chinese Montrealers

• Interviewed by Epoch Times

• Interviewed by NDTV

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2023/4/13 - Comment on Cyber Attacks in Canada

• Interviewed by Montreal Gazette

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2023/3/27 - Comment on Disinformation

• Interviewed by National Post

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2023/3/8 - Comment on Research Security

• Interviewed by Le Journal de Montréal

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2023/2/24 to 2023/3/16 - Comment on TikTok Ban

• Interviewed by CBC The Current

• Interviewed by theBreaker.news

• Interviewed by BIV.com

• Interviewed by Ontario Today, CBC Radio

• Interviewed by Alberta at Noon, CBC Radio

• Interviewed by Acadie nouvelle, CBC Radio New Brunswick

• Interviewed by Radio Noon, CBC Radio Montreal

• Interviewed by TV newscast, CBC TV PEI

• Interviewed by McGill Tribune

• Interviewed by AM1430 Fairchild

• Interviewed by OMNI TV TikTok

• Interviewed by Epoch Times

• Interviewed by CBC National News.

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2023/3/1 to 2023/3/9 Comment on ChatGPT

• Interviewed by OMNI Cantonese

• Interviewed by AM1430 Fairchild

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2023/2/17 to 2023/3/15 - Comment on CSIS' investigation into Beijing influence on the 2021 election

• Interviewed by The Vancouver Sun

• Interviewed by Capital Current, Ottawa

• Interviewed by Al Jazeera

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2023/2/17 - Comment on cyber warfare

• Interviewed by AM1540 A1 Radio

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2023/1/4 - Featured by Digital Research Alliance of Canada (DRAC)

• Interviewed by DRAC

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2022/7/11 - Comment on Bill C26 regarding Cybersecurity

• Interviewed by OMNI Cantonese

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2022/7/11 - Comment on Rogers Internet Failure

• Interviewed by OMNI Cantonese

• Interviewed by AM1540 A1 Radio

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2022/7/8 - Comment on Rogers Internet Failure

• Interviewed by Sing Tao A1

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2022/06/28 - McGill to maintain partnership with Huawei despite federal ban from 5G network

• Interviewed by The McGill Tribune

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2022/06/15 - Why a Foreign Influence Registry Act is necessary for Canada’s national security

• Op-ed in The Hill Times

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2022/05/26 - Data mining: Helpful or harmful?

• McGill Cybersafe

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2022/02 to 2022/03 - Cyber attacks in Ukraine.

• Milênio Stadium Newspaper in Toronto - Invisible Wars

• CBC Radio

• La Presse

• AM1540 A1 Radio

• Elias Makos Show on CJAD 800

• Ben O'Hara-Byren on National Talk Radio / Global News Radio Network

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2022/01/28 - Beijing Olympic app security issues.

• AM1540 A1 Radio

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2022/01/05 - Misinformation and foreign interference in Canada’s affairs

• Op-ed published in Policy Options

• Follow-ups: Globe and Mail (1), Globe and Mail (2), Globe and Mail (3), Fairchild TV, Radio Free Asia, CBC Radio Current, CBC French, CBC Chinese Section, and Policy Options.

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2021/12/30 - Hong Kong : la chanteuse et citoyenne canadienne Denise Ho a été relâchée

• Interviewed by CBC

• Interviewed by CBC Chinese Section

• Interviewed by La Presse

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2021/11/28 - How much data does your car collect on you?

• Interviewed by Toronto Star - Wheels

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2021/11/12 - Diagnosing healthcare's cyber hygiene problem

• Interviewed by CBC Radio Sparks

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2021/11/28 - Artificial intelligence may not actually be the solution for stopping the spread of fake news

• Op-ed published in The Conversation

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2021/11/01 - Governments should inoculate citizens to prevent the spread of fake news

• Op-ed published in The Conversation

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2021/10/27 - Deep fakes and big data: the next level of cyber warfare

• Op-ed published in The Hill Times Policy Briefing

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2021/10/14 - The Vaccine

• Interviewed by CBC The Fifth Estate

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2021/10/9 - The FCC wants to crack down on SIM swapping, a common form of identity theft

• Interviewed by Popular Science.

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2021/9/6 - Election in Canada

• Interviewed by Fairchild Radio Toronto AM1430.

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2021/6/14 - AI and Cybersecurity

• Interviewed by Fairchild Radio Toronto AM1430.

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2021/5/31 - ‘We must make Canadian cyberspace a harder target,’ says CSE chief

• Interviewed by The Hill Times.

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2021/5/12 - Comment on Colonial Pipeline

• Interviewed by Sing Tao A1 AM1540 radio program: A1 Morning

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2021/5/5 - Are Canadians prepared for cyberattacks in the second Cold War?

• Op-ed published in The Hill Times Policy Briefing

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2021/4/22 - Canada's aging critical infrastructure strategy an increasing concern, say cybersecurity experts

• Interviewed by National Post.

• Translated by Epoch Times.

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2020/12/2 - Response to SSMU's #Save12HKyouth statement

• Interviewed by Le Délit, McGill's francophone student newspaper.

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2020/11 - Cybersecurity issues in businesses

• Interviewed by Option consommateurs, a consumer association based in Montreal.

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2020/11 - A "search engine" for mining the mysteries of malware

• Interviewed by McGill News Alumni Magazine.

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2020/07/21 - Wattpad storytelling platform says hackers had access to user email addresses

• Interviewed by The Canadian Press.

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2020/07/02 - Hong Kongers react to China's new national security law

• Interviewed by Daybreak Montreal with Mike Finnerty.

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2020/06/02 - Looking at the Hong Kong protests during COVID-19

• Interviewed by Daybreak Montreal with Mike Finnerty.

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2020/05/26 - SIM Swap Attack

• Interviewed by The Daily Swig.

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2020/01/21 - Data Mining for Cybersecurity

• Reported by The McGill Tribune: Research briefs, science & technology 29th edition of Soup and Science: Data Mining for Cybersecurity

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2019/12/05 - La bataille de Hong Kong à Montréal

• Interviewed by Radio Canada (CBC) - La bataille de Hong Kong à Montréal

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2019/05/21 - AI for Cybersecurity

• Reported by Liberty Time Net (Taiwan): The double-edged sword of AI for cybersecurity

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2018/11/14 - Kam1n0

• Interviewed by McGill Faculty of Arts - Arts Life: Searching for a Safer Cyberworld

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2018 - Phishing

• Interviewed by The McGill Tribune: Phishers target McGill students for account information

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2018 - Cybersecurity

• Podcast at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on the topic of cybsersecurity

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2018 - Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity

• Interviewed by McGill International Review, commenting on Google Duplex

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2017 - Scamming

• Interviewed by The McGill Tribune: The art of the steal

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2017 - Canadian Businesses Raise Cybersecurity Concerns Regarding New China Law

• Interviewed by The Talon, UBC's alternative student press

• Interviewed by The Concordian, Concordia University's student-run newspaper

• Interviewed by Legaltech news [Article]

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2016 - Five Technological Innovations You Didn’t Know Came From Montréal

Kam1n0, developed by the Data Mining and Security Lab at McGill School of Information Studies, has been chosen by Tourism Montreal to be one of the five technological innovations from Montreal. [Article]

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2016 - TVM Television - The State of Surveillance

Interviewed by TVM Television, Student Television at McGill [YouTube: The State of Surveillance]
Interviewees: Mr. Edward Snowden, Dr. Rex Brynen, Dr. Steven Wagner, and Dr. Benjamin Fung @ McGill University

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2016 - Comment on digital privacy

Interviewed by Montreal Gazette to comment on digital privacy in the era of big data [Article]

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2016 - Interviewed by McGill School of Information Studies

Interviewed by McGill School of Information Studies for the appointment of Canada Research Chair [Article]

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2016 - Comment on the privacy issues of FitBit

Interviewed by La Presse+ to comment on the privacy issues of FitBit [Article]

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2014 - Visualizing E-mail Writeprint

This is a collaborative project between SIS, CIISE, and NCFTA Canada. This work has been reported by McGill Headway.

Representative publication:

[1]	S. H. H. Ding, B. C. M. Fung, and M. Debbabi. A visualizable evidence-driven approach for authorship attribution. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 17(3):12.1-12.30, March 2015. ACM Press.

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2013 - Hunting for Cyber Criminals

This is a collaborative project between CIISE, NCFTA Canada, and a law enforcement agency in Canada. The study has received both national and international media coverage, including Radio Canada International, Le Journal de Montreal, Le Journal de Québec, TVA Nouvelles, Canada Standard, MSN Technologie, Yahoo Finance, Huffington Post (QC), Mag Securs, AMEQ en ligne (subscription only), Toronto Telegraph (featured story), USA Today, EurekAlert, Nachrichten (Germany), Germany Today, Ciência e Tecnologia Saúde Digest (Portuguese), The Times of India, Phys.org, ISS Source, ECN Magazine, Forensic Science, Press-News.org, Jagran Post (India), REALTIME NEWS (India), News Track India, Science Daily, Science Codex, Science Newsline, Maverick Multimédia, Health Medicine Network, Canoe, Ecolo WeB inFO, monTELUS, The Universal Pantograph, Concordia Alumni Magazine, dhemo, Phys.org, and Worlds Luxury Guide. The original story was published in Concordia Now and then in Concordia University Magazine. The work was published in Data & Knowledge Engineering.

Representative publications:

[1]	A. Basher and B. C. M. Fung. Analyzing topics and authors in chat logs for crime investigation. Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS): An International Journal, 39(2):351-381, May 2014. Springer.
[2]	G. G. Dagher and B. C. M. Fung. Subject-based semantic document clustering for digital forensic investigations. Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE), 86:224-241, July 2013. Elsevier.

My Ph.D. student, Gaby Dagher, was interviewed by the media:
- CTV News: Montreal (TV)
- CBC New Brunswick (TV)
- CJAD's The Aaron Rand Show (Radio)
- Telegraph-Journal, the provincial newspaper for New Brunswick
- The Connectivist, online technology news magazine, New York

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2012 - Differential Privacy

• How to Share Personal Data While Keeping Secrets Safe - 2012/08/07 - Technology  Review - MIT

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2011 - Authorship Analysis

This is a collaborative project between CIISE and NCFTA Canada. The study has received international coverage in New York Times, UPI, Wired (UK), Toronto Star, International Business Times, PC World, Secure Computing Magazine (Australia), Computer World (New Zealand),  Thinq (UK),  MetroCanada,  TechWorld,  CIO Magazine,  R&D Magazine,  Giz Mag, the Economic Times, Inventors Spot, The Inquirer, Ahmedabad Mirror (India), IDG News (Sweden), NetWorld (Poland), PC Pro (UK), BBC (in Spanish), Today Commercial News (in Chinese), the Chronicle of Higher Order, the Epoch Times, Sina.com, TechRepublic, Imagine, Bit City (Italy), The Register (UK), La Stampa (Italy), and Slashdot. Prof. Mourad Debbabi was also interviewed on Radio-Canada radio's Je l'ai vu à la radio, Désautels, and CBC Radio One Edmonton regarding the study. The original story was published in the Concordia Journal and ENCS Faculty Magazine. The work was published in Digital Investigation and Information Sciences. The project was conducted by my former doctoral student Farkhund Iqbal.

[1]	F. Iqbal, H. Binsalleeh, B. C. M. Fung, and M. Debbabi. A unified data mining solution for authorship analysis in anonymous textual communications. Information Sciences (INS): Special Issue on Data Mining for Information Security, 231:98-112, May 2013. Elsevier.
[2]	F. Iqbal, R. Hadjidj, B. C. M. Fung, and M. Debbabi. A novel approach of mining write-prints for authorship attribution in e-mail forensics. Digital Investigation (DIIN), 5(1):42-51. Proceedings of the 8th Annual DFRWS Conference. September 2008. Elsevier. [ full paper | slides ]

 
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