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OC NEWS and by doing so secured victory, £1,000 prize money and a large trophy. Cameron said of the experience: “Although I haven’t decided on my final career, I am choosing modules in my course that focus on AI and Cyber Security.” After his team’s victory, I am sure some of the companies that were at the competition like IBM, BT and BlackPhone will be only too interested…
Barbara Parsons, widow of Kenneth Parsons (40), was seen on BBC1’s Antiques Roadshow in October. She was showing his war diary and parachute jacket and telling the story of his time in Normandy from the early hours of D-Day. The photo is taken from Edward, Kenneth and Barbara’s son’s book “Band of Scholars” about his father and his peers at Oxford. Cameron Jones (18) was part of the winning team at the 2019 BCS Cyber Crime Cup, a cyber-security competition held live at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester and as a spectator sport (a world first!). In all, 200 students from 65 teams at 35 universities entered the competition. Through qualifying rounds in November, these were whittled down to ten teams of five, who qualified to battle and hack their way through live elimination phases at the Etihad.
Two teams emerged on top to secure places in the live final: Cameron and his teammates from Royal Holloway University of London and the University of Manchester. The final involved the teams hacking into a bank to gain access to the most funds, despite the bank having two factor authentication with mobile one-time passcode. Cameron and his team mates managed to ‘steal’ £27,000
David Wheeler (96) and his eldest daughter, Evelyn (just 11 at the time), climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in July 2019 for charity, reaching the peak
