3. Smart Devices, Smarter Hackers: How secure is your personal data?

3. Smart Devices, Smarter Hackers: How Secure is Your Personal Data?

🕒 Date: 25 July 2024 (Thursday) | Time: 7-8pm (SGT)

Did you know that your smart devices can be a hacker’s gold mine?

As our lives increasingly intertwine with the digital realm, the risks of data breaches continue to grow as well. That is why many smart devices, such as your smartphones, offer fingerprint authentication as an extra layer of security.

But is your sensitive data, especially vital banking information, truly safe?

Join us in this virtual masterclass where Dr Steve Kerrison will demonstrate how effortlessly can hackers breach your smart devices and steal your fingerprint, all without you knowing. Once they possess your print, the question arises: what else is at risk?


Speaker Profile

Dr Steve Kerrison
Senior Lecturer, Cybersecurity

Dr Steve Kerrison has both research and industrial experience in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cybersecurity. He has collaborated in various research projects, including the EU-funded ENTRA, EMC2 and ICT-Energy projects and projects under the Singapore National Research Foundation’s National Cybersecurity R&D Programme. With a history of expertise in systems from the cloud right down to chip micro-architectures, Steve’s current research interests focus on how to make cybersecurity easy, efficient, and effective, aiming to create a safer, smarter and more environmentally friendly world.