News & Media
Articles, Interviews, Opinion Pieces, and Media
- Forbes magazine, provided opinions and quotes to Forbes columnist Edward Segal regarding the widespread IT system failures due to the CrowdStrike software updates. Published in an article “The Global IT Outage Provides Several Crisis Management Lessons” on July 19, 2024.
- TechXplore, Internet media published an article entitled “How to protect your personal info after AT&T’s data breach” on July 15, 2024. Written by Irving Mejia-Hilario with quotes from Mitch Thornton.
- DFW Fox News 4, Interviewed for article “Tarrant County homowners’ personal information released on the dark web,” April 17, 2024, by reporter Dionne Anglin. Local news story aired at 5:30PM with quotes from Mitch Thornton.
- Dallas Morning News, Article entitled “How to protect personal info after AT&T’s data breach,” April 1, 2024. Written by Irving Mejia-Hilario with quotes from Mitch Thornton.
- North Texas eNews, Internet newspaper, Article entitled “AI threats could make cyber threats harder to detect,” February 28, 2024.
- YouTube.com, video of invited talk entitled “Cyber Autonomy Range” (talk begins at 45-minute timestamp) as part of the “Innovation forum” presented by Technology Ideation, LLC and delivered using the Polyplexus platform. The presentation was delivered on February 7, 2024.
- Viewpoint segment, hosted by Dennis Quaid, segment on PBS Newshour, (over 400 different local PBS TV stations), Quantum Cryptography, interview filmed at SMU in April 2023 with Anametric, Inc. founder Dr. Wil Oxford and AFRL Director, Dr. Michael Hayduk, segment aired in early 2024.
- Fox DFW channel 4, Good Day program at 9AM, appeared live for a segment entitled “AI could make cyber threats harder to detect,” interviewed by Bryan Todd (video). A video clip of this segment and accompanying abstract was posted on the Yahoo news (news.yahoo.com), Microsoft news (msn.com) and Haystack TV (haystack.tv) websites on 1/24/24. The segment was also used in several Australian news sites including The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, NT News, Gold Coast Bulletin, Cairns Post, The Advertiser, Geelong Advertiser, and The Courier Mail. on January 26, 2024.
- SMU Press Release, AI Could Make Cyber Threats Harder to Detect, SMU News website, January 18, 2024.
- Fox Business Channel (FBC), U.S. national, December 14, 2023, 30-second commercial aired for Anametric, Inc. and mentioned collaboration with SMU researchers showing a research poster in the Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security. SMU has granted exclusive patent licenses to Anametric and IP was generated as a result of research at the Deason Institute.
- Spectrum News, December 11, 2023, appeared in story “Report: Chinese hackers targeted Texas power grid, Hawaii water utility, other infrastructure,” by Lourdes Vazquez, 5PM news segment.
- ABC DFW channel 8 news, September 19, 2023, appeared in story “How SMU researchers are stopping cyberattacks,” by Sydney Persing, 6PM news segment.
- NBC DFW channel 5 news, August 9, 2023, appeared in story “Dallas pays millions for ransomware expenses after May attack,” by Ken Kalthoff, 6PM news segment.
- NBC DFW channel 5 news, May 5, 2023, appeared in story “City of Dallas Continues Battling Ransomware Attack for Third Day,” by Ken Kalthoff, 4:30PM news segment and 6:00PM news segment. Reference and quote attribution appeared in on-line article “Dallas Ransomware Attack Continues for Third Day – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth,” at The Black Chronicle website.
- CBS DFW channel 11 news, December 7, 2022, interviewed regarding Governor Abbott’s ban of TikTok on government issued devices, 5PM news segment, 6PM news segment
- SMU Press Release, SMU’s Deason Institute to partner with Goldman Sachs and Prairie View A&M for cyber security research, www.smu.edu, October 10, 2022, also related online articles at dallasweekly.com, pvamu.edu, rushhourtimescom, cps-vo.org, jbhe.com.
- Raytheon Technlogies, Inc. Press Release, Raytheon Intelligence and Space Partners with Virginia Tech and Southern Methodist University on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research, February 23, 2021, also SMU press release, numerous web-based venues including: executivbiz.com, newsbreak.com, The Southwest Virginia Sun, The Dallas Express.
- CBS DFW channel 11 (web edition), SMU Lands $1M For Research Aimed At Cybersecurity, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs, December 8, 2020, from SMU press release. Also, numerous other online articles resulted including those posted at enterpriseai.news, insidequantumtechnology.com, newsbreak.com, sciencex.com, quantumzeitgeist.com, techtransfercentral.com, dallasinnovates.com, insidehpc.com, newlocker.com, December 2020 SMU Lyle Insider magazine, and others.
- Houston Chronicle (print edition), Hypersonic A&M, Opinion Editor, October 30, 2020, interviewed and quoted regarding quantum computing research in the U.S. and at SMU, hpcwire.com and others.
- SMU Develops Anti-ransomware Program, The Daily Sentinel, Nacodoches, Texas daily newpaper, authored by AP, staff writer Josh Edwards, and SMU office of public relations, May 13, 2020.
- KRLD radio 1080AM, (Dallas), new sensor-based ransomware detection method from Deason Institute, Thornton interview, aired 6:52AM, May 14, 2020.
- KRLD radio 1080AM, (Dallas), cybersecurity concerns related to COVID19 pandemic interview, April 2, 2020.
- Dallas Morning News (print edition), The sound of things to come, Jordan Wilkerson, describes research about keyboard/smartphone snooping privacy, September 23, 2019.
- BBC radio, BBC World Service and two local UK BBC radio stations, interviewed by Oliver Conway and included in a radio piece about keyboard/smartphone snooping privacy, (audio recording at 11:33), additional similar stories on Dallas KRLD and KLIF radio stations
- Forbes, Forbes, Now hackers can use smartphones to secretly listen to what you’re typing on your laptop keyboard, August 20, 2019, (authored by Jeb Su, Forbes correspondent with interview of M.A. Thornton).