Abstract
The 2017 Royal Holloway University of London - Stevenson Science Lecture is presented in London for the first time, in association with the Institution of Engineering and Technology. This year's speakers are experts from two of our world- leading departments, the School of Mathematics and Information Security and the Department of Psychology. In this lecture they highlight the sometimes menacing consequences when people and technology come together, in this lecture entitled 'Should I really have just clicked on that?'
Interconnected devices support and occasionally exasperate us in our daily lives and working environment. Yet it is this interwoven fabric of information linking virtually all our activities that may allow a small mistake or attack to have a disproportionate effect. But is it really as dramatic as "one regrettable click leading inexorably to disaster"?
This lecture explores the technical means allowing attackers to effect breaches and the psychological reasons for remaining vulnerable in spite of all awareness that such attacks are commonplace
