Alan Woodward, a cyber security expert and a visiting professor of the Department, attended an event at the RSA Conference 2012 in London on 9th October. Alan and three other experts (including Parmy Olson, journalist and author of the book We Are Anonymous) were debating about "the rapidly evolving socio-political implications of cyber warfare and hacking". To see the full story, click here.

Alan was also commented for BBC on a new security service released by RSA at the same conference. The new RSA service splits passwords into two parts each stored on a separate server. RSA claims that this new service can help improve password security by doubling the challenge an attacker has to met. Alan however believes that such a service can work to prevent only a minority of real attacks since social engineering attacks like phishing won't be influenced by such server-side protection. The complete BBC report can be found at here.