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2025

Vu, Anh V. and Collier, Ben and Thomas, Daniel R. and Kristoff, John and Clayton, Richard and Hutchings, Alice (2025) Assessing the aftermath : the effects of a global takedown against DDoS-for-hire services. In: 34th USENIX Security Symposium, 2025-08-13 - 2025-08-15. (In Press)

Bello, Musa Ibrahim and Thomas, Daniel R. (2025) Blockchain framework for enhancing employment integrity process to curb ghost worker fraud. In: NCSC ACE-CSR Conference 2025, 2025-01-08 - 2025-01-09, University of Lancaster.

2024

Sikra, Juraj and Renaud, Karen V. and Thomas, Daniel R. (2024) Investigating what promotes and deters Scottish cybercrime reporting. Journal of Economic Criminology, 6. 100103. ISSN 2949-7914

Hiesgen, Raphael and Nawrocki, Marcin and Barcellos, Marinho and Kopp, Daniel and Hohlfeld, Oliver and Chan, Echo and Dobbins, Roland and Doerr, Christian and Thomas, Daniel R. and Rossow, Christian and Jonker, Mattijs and Mok, Ricky and Luo, Xiapu and Kristoff, John and Schmidt, Thomas C. and Wählisch, Matthias and claffy, kc; (2024) The age of DDoScovery : an empirical comparison of industry and academic DDoS assessments. In: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ’24). ACM, ESP, pp. 259-279. ISBN 9798400705922

Horgan, Shane and Collier, Ben and Stewart, James and Thomas, Daniel R. (2024) Influence policing : domestic digital influence campaigns and algorithmic strategic communications in UK law enforcement and homeland security. The British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955

Sikra, Juraj and Renaud, Karen V. and Thomas, Daniel R. (2024) Client-Centred Cybercrime Training : a Scottish case study. In: The 2024 Dewald Roode Workshop on Information Systems Security Research, 2024-10-04 - 2024-10-05, KSU Center.

Prochacki, Pat and Thomas, Daniel and Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro and Moshfeghi, Yashar; Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro, ed. (2024) More technology? Evaluating the effectiveness of smart thermostats. In: UKIEG Annual Conference 2024. University of Strathclyde, GBR, pp. 22-23. ISBN 9781914241703

Vu, Anh V. and Thomas, Daniel R. and Collier, Ben and Hutchings, Alice and Clayton, Richard and Anderson, Ross; (2024) Getting bored of cyberwar : exploring the role of low-level cybercrime actors in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In: WWW '24: Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024. ACM, Singapore, 1596–1607. ISBN 9798400701719

Collier, Ben and Stewart, James and Horgan, Shane and Thomas, Daniel R. and Wilson, Lydia (2024) Influence government, platform power and the patchwork profile : exploring the appropriation of targeted advertising infrastructures for government behaviour change campaigns. First Monday, 29 (2). ISSN 1396-0466

2023

Cooper, Andrew and Thomas, Daniel (2023) Mind the Security Gap : Evaluating the Effectiveness of the UK Cyber Essentials Scheme and its Suitability for Large Enterprises. Masters thesis, Computer And Information Sciences.

Bello, Musa Ibrahim and Thomas, Daniel R.; (2023) Curbing ghost worker fraud in developing countries using consortium blockchain. In: IWSPA '23. ACM, USA, pp. 77-83. ISBN 9798400700996

Sikra, Juraj and Renaud, Karen V. and Thomas, Daniel R. (2023) UK cybercrime, victims and reporting : a systematic review. Commonwealth Cybercrime Journal, 1 (1). pp. 28-59.

2022

Bello, Musa Ibrahim and Thomas, Daniel R.; (2022) Potentials of blockchain technology to payroll systems. In: SAIS 2022 Proceedings. AIS eLibrary, [Atlanta, GA.].

Collier, Ben and Flynn, Gemma and Stewart, James and Thomas, Daniel R. (2022) Influence government : exploring practices, ethics, and power in the use of targeted advertising by the UK state. Big Data & Society, 9 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 2053-9517

2021

Collier, Ben and Flynn, Gemma and Stewart, James and Thomas, Daniel R. (2021) SCCJR Briefing Paper - Influence Government : Exploring Practices, Ethics, and Power in the Use of Targeted Advertising by the UK State. The Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research (SCCJR), Glasgow.

Collier, Ben and Clayton, Richard and Hutchings, Alice and Thomas, Daniel R. (2021) Cybercrime is (often) boring : infrastructure and alienation in a deviant subculture. The British Journal of Criminology, 61 (5). pp. 1407-1423. azab026. ISSN 0007-0955

Dodson, Michael and Beresford, Alastair R. and Thomas, Daniel R.; (2021) When will my PLC support Mirai? The security economics of large-scale attacks against internet-connected ICS devices. In: Proceedings of the 2020 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, eCrime 2020. eCrime Researchers Summit, eCrime . IEEE, Piscataway, N.J.. ISBN 9781665425391

Collier, Ben and Thomas, Daniel R. and Clayton, Richard and Hutchings, Alice and Chua, Yi Ting (2021) Influence, infrastructure, and recentering cybercrime policing : evaluating emerging approaches to online law enforcement through a market for cybercrime services. Policing and Society, 32 (1). pp. 103-124. ISSN 1477-2728

2020

Collier, Ben and Clayton, Richard and Hutchings, Alice and Thomas, Daniel R. (2020) Cybercrime is (often) boring : maintaining the infrastructure of cybercrime economies. In: Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, 2020-12-14 - 2020-12-15.

Lau, Billy and Zhang, Jiexin and Beresford, Alastair R. and Thomas, Daniel R. and Mayrhofer, René (2020) Uraniborg's device preloaded app risks scoring metrics. Institute of Networks and Security, Linz, Austria.

2019

Collier, Ben and Thomas, Daniel R. and Clayton, Richard and Hutchings, Alice; (2019) Booting the booters : evaluating the effects of police interventions in the market for denial-of-service attacks. In: IMC 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Internet Measurement Conference. ACM, NLD, pp. 50-64. ISBN 9781450369480

Pastrana, Sergio and Hutchings, Alice and Thomas, Daniel R. and Tapiador, Juan; (2019) Measuring eWhoring. In: IMC 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Internet Measurement Conference. ACM, NLD, pp. 463-477. ISBN 9781450369480

Vasile, Diana A. and Kleppmann, Martin and Thomas, Daniel R. and Beresford, Alastair R.; (2019) Ghost trace on the wire? Using key evidence for informed decisions. In: 27th International Workshop on Security Protocols. University of Cambridge, GBR, pp. 245-257. ISBN 9783030570422

2018

Pastrana, Sergio and Thomas, Daniel R. and Hutchings, Alice and Clayton, Richard; (2018) CrimeBB : enabling cybercrime research on underground forums at scale. In: WWW '18 : Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference. ACM, FRA, pp. 1845-1854. ISBN 9781450356398

2017

Thomas, Daniel R. and Pastrana, Sergio and Hutchings, Alice and Clayton, Richard and Beresford, Alastair R.; (2017) Ethical issues in research using datasets of illicit origin. In: IMC '17 : Proceedings of the 2017 Internet Measurement Conference. ACM, New York, NY., pp. 445-462. ISBN 9781450351188

2016

Thomas, Daniel R. and Beresford, Alastair R. (2016) Incentivising software updates. In: Internet of Things Software Update Workshop (IoTSU), 2016-06-13 - 2016-06-14.

2015

Thomas, Daniel R. and Beresford, Alastair R. and Rice, Andrew; (2015) Security metrics for the Android ecosystem. In: ACM CCS Workshop on Security and Privacy in Smartphones and Mobile Devices (SPSM). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA, pp. 87-98. ISBN 9781450338196

Wagner, Daniel T. and Thomas, Daniel R. and Beresford, Alastair R. and Rice, Andrew; (2015) Device analyzer : a privacy-aware platform to support research on the Android ecosystem. In: Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, WiSec 2015. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, USA. ISBN 9781450336239

Thomas, Daniel R. and Beresford, Alastair R. and Coudray, Thomas and Sutcliffe, Tom and Taylor, Adrian; (2015) The lifetime of Android API vulnerabilities : case study on the JavaScript-to-Java interface. In: Cambridge International Workshop on Security Protocols. LNCS . Springer, pp. 126-138. ISBN 9783319260969