Hi.

My name is David Modic, PhD. I am a researcher and head of the security policy group at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science.

I am affiliated with Cambridge University's Computer Lab, a Senior Non-Residental Member of King's College, Cambridge, a visiting scholar at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, and the former CamCERT Social Engineering Special Advisor.

The links above will lead you to my various academic pursuits.

If you wish to contact me, send me an email:  david[at]modic.org.uk (replace the [at] with @).

Until September 2017, I was Honorary University Fellow at the University of Exeter.  Link to my Exeter e-profile page.

I consult various governments on cybercrime and security (Brazil, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia, UK), the military, and businesses (WebSense, CallCredit, Octopus group ...).

Visit:  Cambridge red queen systems web page (a security consulting company I run)

NEWS (older news are here):

26th January 2021. Slovene Academy for arts and sciences is organsing a panel on Cyber Security [Kibernetska varnost in varovanje zasebnosti]. I'll be giving a short talk titled: Is INFOSEC only for real manly men? [Je Informacijska varnost samo za “prave dedce”?]. The whole event was on YouTube (currently marked as private). Local video of my part (in Slovene) is here [380Mb, MP4]

14th December 2020. Moved to a new CMS version. Welcome to the new site. 

11th November 2020. Runing a Cybersafety in times of COVID workshop at the uni.minds festival. Here is the agenda. The link to the livestream on YouTube. A local copy [MP4, 480Mb, ENG]. 

1st October 2020. Giving a talk at the Privacy days Conference in Ljubljana on Cambridge Analytica and the resulting fallout.  

17th September 2020. Running an advanced INFOSEC workshop with a colleague, Miha Grohar for the Slovene Telecom technical staff. 

15th July 2020. FRI signs a long-term research and INFOSEC consulting contract with Sava Insurance group. I am the PI for that project.

15th June 2020. Appointed head of security policy group at FRI.

17th June 2020. Free Webinar titled INFOSEC and COVID-19. Part of Slovene Psychological Society Monthly Seminar Series. I was one of three speakers. My presentation is here [Local copy, 62Mb, MP4, SLO].

28th May 2020. Free Webinar titled Fraud in the time of COVID-19. Part of FRI Academy COVID-19 lecture series. Here is an online version of the webinar in full [SLO]. Local copy is here [110Mb, MP4, SLO].

23rd January 2020. Running an INFOSEC course at FRI Akademija. Enroll here CANCELLED!

12nd December 2019. Giving an Invited talk at Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology on InfoSec. Slides are here.

25-26th November 2019. Running an INFOSEC two-day course at FRI Akademija.

21st November 2019. Presenting to the board of Zavarovalnica Sava (three hour talk on the state od INFOSEC). Presentation is embargoed.

22nd October 2019. Giving a keynote on INFOSEC at CyberSecurity event at the governmental palace - Brdo (organised by Finance and A1). More info. Photos from the event are here. Presentation is here. Local copy is here [PDF].

18th October 2019. An interview with me for the Slovene National Radio ARS (show: Podobe znanja). Here is the link to the show. Local copy is here [MP3, 30Mb].

8th October 2019. Participation in a Slovene National Radio Panel show Studio ob 17. An hour long daily panel show where Marko Grobelnik (IJS), Gorazd Božič (SiCERT) and me chatted about INFOSEC. Link to the archive is here. Local copy is here [MP3, 51Mb].

19th September 2019. Giving a talk about Internet persuasion at the 8th International Congress of Slovene Psychologists. The slides will appear here after the talk [in Slovene].

22nd May 2019. Giving a talk about penetration testing at the Microsoft NTK Conference in Bernardin, Slovenia. 

17th March 2019. Two hours long interview on slovene national radio 1 at midnight. Slovene Radio podcast link. Local link here [mp3 in Slovene language].

26th February 2019. Appeared on the show KODA (National Television), discussing Internet fraud in general. The show is in Slovene language. Online link is here (I appear around 7th minute). Here is a local copy [460MB / mp4]

20th February 2019. Giving a talk about lonely hearts swindles at an event organized by SI-CERT. The slides are here [pptx].

21st December 2018. Giving a talk about my research the 3rd symposium of Slovene researchers educated abroad, an VTIS event at the Slovene Ministry of Education. Slides in Slovene are here [pptx].

1st October 2018. Started as a lecturer and researcher at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science.

 ​older news are here

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Last update on: 29^th January, 2021