ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
July 2020
Rob talks about the accusation by the US, the UK and Canada that Russia has been hacking COVID-19 vaccine researchers.
April 2018
Rob talks about NATO’s cyber defence exercise to which Australia has sent an official observer following recent cyber attacks on Australian businesses.
June 2017
Rob joins Fran Kelly of ABC to discuss what can be done about online extremism.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/cyber/8592168
May 2017
Rob discusses the WannaCry ransomware attack which affected a large number of organisations globally, notably Britian’s NHS.
Al Jazeera
December 2020
Rob commented on the Solarwinds story, a huge cyber attack on the US attributed to Russia.
July 2020 – Inside Story
Rob joins a panel to discuss the announcement by the UK government that it will ban Huawei equipment from its 5G network.
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2020/07/fill-huawei-void-200720193612181.html
July 2020
Rob was interviewed about the Twitter hack where a number of high-profile accounts were used in an apparent cryptocurrency scam.
May 2017 – Inside Story
Rob joins a panel to discuss the computer virus WannaCry which affected major organisations including Britain’s NHS, French car maker Renault, international shipper FedEx, and Russia’s banks and interior ministry, as well as the Spanish telecoms company Telefonica.
March 2017 – Inside Story
Rob discusses privacy and security aspects of the modern connected world.
April 2016 – Inside Story
Rob joins a panel to discuss encryption and whether governments should have the right to snoop on what we share online.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2016/04/encryption-160416145826188.html
May 2015 – Inside Story
Rob and the panel debate private and state internet surveillance
ITV News
October 2020
Rob comments on the news that six Russian GRU Officers have been charged in connection with deployment of destructive malware, including attacks against Ukraine’s electric power grid, spearphishing campaigns targeting French President Macron’s election campaign, attacks targeting the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, and destructive malware attacks that infected computers worldwide using malware known as NotPetya.
Jane’s Intelligence Review
March 2020
Private technology companies hold increasing amounts of private data making them vulnerable to intelligence collection by nation-states. Rob provides some expert opinion for this article in Jane’s Intelligence Review.
“Speaking to Jane’s in January 2020, cyber security expert Rob Pritchard said that technology companies such as Google and Facebook now faced insider threats traditionally associated with companies in the defence sector or critical national infrastructure (CNI). …”
Newsweek
July 2020
“Right now anyone who looks like they might be ahead of the game when it comes to a COVID-19 vaccine is going to have an edge others want to get” Rob tells Newsweek that pharmaceutical companies are frequent targets when it comes to state-backed cyber espionage.
July 2020
“I think we’re all lucky it was just crypto scammers and not something more insidious, to be honest.” Rob comments on the Twitter hack where some of the biggest accounts were used in a cryptocurrency scam.
March 2020
Rob comments on the video calling app Houseparty and their suggestion that recent allegations of a hack may have been a “paid commercial smear campaign”.
August 2019
Rob discusses the new Huawei operating system with Newsweek noting “If you didn’t trust Huawei hardware running Android then you aren’t going to trust Huawei hardware running their own operating system”.
July 2019
Rob discusses the Capital One hack/breach with Newsweek.
September 2018
Rob tells Newsweek he remains unconvinced about the alleged Wi-Fi security issue reported by SureCloud, saying “In essence, this report demonstrates that passwords to unencrypted portals over unprotected Wi-Fi can be captured, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone.”
August 2018
Rob comments on the Check Point report which said WhatsApp bugs could let hackers “spread misinformation from what appear to be trusted sources”.
April 2018
Rob comments on governments’ use of cell-site simulators to monitor citizens’ mobile communications.
June 2015
Rob explains why Britain has to fend off thousands of cyber attacks every day.
OCP Policy Centre
March 2017
In this interview Rob discusses key cyber issues including cyber criminals, cyber defence, and the importance of national cyber strategies.
http://www.ocppc.ma/multimedia/interviews/robert-john-pritchard-cyber-security-glance
The Register
September 2020
Rob comments on the story that businesses are worried they will get caught in the cross-fire of a cyber attack.
August 2020
“This pervasive idea that investing in vague ‘cyber capabilities’ can somehow replace actual defence spending on things that are useful for defence has gone on way too long…” Read Rob’s thoughts on the news that the British army is increasing spending on cyber security.
March 2019
Rob comments on the report from the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) which says the Chinese company is a threat to British national security after all …
February 2019
Rob comments on the upcoming report from the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) which is set to shame Huawei over lack of resolution on issues previously raised.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/04/huawei_hcsec_gchq_brouhaha/
November 2015
Rob comments on the threat of cyber-terrorism.
Sky News
November 2018
Rob is interviewed about cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab’s move out of Moscow to Switzerland in an effort to address concerns arising from its exposure to Russian intelligence services.
October 2018
Rob is interviewed about the second annual review by the UK Government’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), published on 16th October. The NCSC revealed it has handled 1,167 cyber incidents, including 557 in the last 12 months, the majority of which “were undertaken by groups of computer hackers directed, sponsored or tolerated by the governments of those countries”.
October 2018
Rob is interviewed about the security threats from Chinese companies building 5G networks, and the request by Admiral Lord West, a former First Sea Lord who served under Gordon Brown as a security minister, for the government to set up a unit reporting directly to the prime minister to monitor the risk posed by Chinese equipment in 5G.
Read the Sky News article here:
https://news.sky.com/story/chinese-kit-putting-all-of-us-at-risk-if-used-in-5g-11524792
April 2018
Rob provides his opinions on what a cyber war would look like.
https://news.sky.com/story/what-can-the-uk-actually-expect-in-a-cyberwar-11230240
September 2017
Rob comments on the massive breach of US-based Equifax, in which it lost the personal data of millions of people to hackers.
Talk Radio
May 2017
Rob discusses the NHS ransomware attack.
http://talkradio.co.uk/news/nhs-cyber-attack-wake-call-says-security-specialist-17051513752
The Telegraph
December 2020
Rob comments on the SolarWinds hack, considered to be the worst Russian cyber attack on the US in a decade.
January 2020
Rob comments on the value of the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre, also known as the Cell, which tests and probes Huawei equipment for use in the UK.
January 2019
Rob comments on the vulnerabilities of Twitter accounts and why it’s really important that security measures are put in place.
April 2018
Rob comments on the threat of cyber attacks by Russia.
June 2017
Passwords belonging to British politicians, diplomats and senior police officers have been traded.