George Weir is a lecturer in Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He holds academic qualifications from three Scottish universities, including a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. In addition to teaching and research supervision, he has published extensively in the areas of Cybercrime, Security, Readability and Corpus Linguistics. He is a member of the BCS Forensics and Cybercrime Specialist Group, the Association of Computing Machinery, the British Computer Society, the Higher Education Academy and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He is also a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Dr. George Weir
Contact Information:
Email: george.weir@strath.ac.uk
Relevant Publications:
Fathiya Al Izki and George Weir, Management Attitudes Toward Information Security in Omani Public Sector Organisations, Cybersecurity and Cyberforensics Conference (CCC 2016), University of Jordan, Jordan, IEEE (forthcoming).
Karen Renaud and George Weir, Cybersecurity and the Unbearability of Uncertainty, Cybersecurity and Cyberforensics Conference (CCC 2016), University of Jordan, Jordan, IEEE (forthcoming).
Andreas Aßmuth, Paul Cockshott, Jana Kipke, Karen Renaud, Lewis Mackenzie, Wim Vanderbauwhede, Matthias Soellner, Tilo Fischer and George Weir, Improving Resilience by Deploying Permuted Code onto Physically Unclonable Unique Processors, Cybersecurity and Cyberforensics Conference (CCC 2016), University of Jordan, Jordan, IEEE (forthcoming).
G.R.S. Weir, R. Frank, B. Cartwright and E. Dos Santos, Positing The Problem: Enhancing Classification of Extremist Web Content Through Textual Analysis, International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics 2016 (ICCCF 2016), Vancouver, Canada, IEEE (forthcoming).
Najla Etaher and George R S Weir, Understanding children’s mobile device usage, International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics 2016 (ICCCF 2016), Vancouver, Canada, IEEE (forthcoming).
Samar Albladi and George R S Weir, Vulnerability to Social Engineering in Social Networks: A Proposed User-Centric Framework, International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics 2016 (ICCCF 2016), Vancouver, Canada, IEEE (forthcoming).
George R.S. Weir, 'The Internet of Things: Promise of a Better Connected World', in P. Hehenberger and D. Bradley (Eds), Mechatronic Futures: Challenges and Solutions for Mechatronic Systems and their Designers, Springer, 2016.
Najla Etaher, George R S Weir and Mamoun Alazab, From ZeuS to Zitmo: Trends in Banking Malware, TrustCom 2015: The 14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, Helsinki, Finland, 2015, pp 1386-1391.
Fathiya Al Izki and George R S Weir, Gender Impact on Information Security in the Arab World, ICGS3-15, 10th International conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability, London, 2015.
Gregor Robinson and George R S Weir, Understanding Android Security, ICGS3-15, 10th International conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability, London, 2015.
Fathiya Al Izki and George R S Weir, Information Security and Digital Divide in the Arab World, Proceedings of Cyberforensics 2014, pp 15-24, University of Strathclyde, June 2014.
Richard Connor, Stewart Mackenzie-Leigh and George R S Weir, The forensic detection of very similar images, Proceedings of Cyberforensics 2014, pp 26-32, University of Strathclyde, June 2014.
Katherine Darroch and George R S Weir, Measuring sexually explicit content, Proceedings of Cyberforensics 2014, pp 101-112, University of Strathclyde, June 2014.
Najla Etaher and George R S Weir, Understanding the Threat of Banking Malware, Proceedings of Cyberforensics 2014, pp 73-80, University of Strathclyde, June 2014.
George R S Weir and David Igbako, Strategies for Covert Web Search, Proceedings of CTC 2013 : 4th Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Workshop, Sydney, Australia, 2013.
George R S Weir and Christopher Forbes, Quantifying Sexually Explicit Language, International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensic (ICCCF 2013), Hong Kong, China, 2013.
George R S Weir and Richard Connor, The importance of image similarity for criminal investigation, Presented at Cyberforensics 2013, Cardiff, UK.
Ameer Al-Nemrat, George R.S. Weir (Eds), Special issue on Cybercrime Prevention, Detection and Response, Int. J. Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2013.
George R.S. Weir, Michael Daley (Eds), Cyberforensics Perspectives, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cybercrime, Security and Digital Forensics (Cyberforensics 2013), 2013.
A. Odueke and G. R. S. Weir, Triage in Forensic Accounting using Zipf's Law. In Issues in Cybercrime, Security and Digital Forensics. Edited by G. R. S. Weir and A. Al-Nemrat. Glasgow. University of Strathclyde Publishing. 2012. pp. 33-43.
R. Ogilvie and G. R. S. Weir, Genre-Based Information Hiding. In ICGS3/e-Democracy 2011. Edited by R. Bashroush. LNICST 99, Springer. 2012. pp. 104-111.
G. R. S. Weir and A. M. Duta, Strategies for neutralising sexually explicit language. Proceedings of CTC 2012 : 3rd Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Workshop. University of Ballarat. 2012.
G. R. S. Weir and G. Rossi, Toward Music-Based Data Discrimination for Cybercrime Investigations. In Cyberforensics: Issue and Perspectives. Edited by G. R. S. Weir. University of Strathclyde Publishing. 2011. pp. 229-235.