GenCyber: NSA sets up summer camps to teach kids to hack
Steve Kelman finds the normally secretive agency’s camps an intriguing way to offer a taste of cybersecurity careers to middle and high school students.
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Server hack yields harrowing images of life inside Chinese detention camps
A hack on police servers in China’s Xinjiang region has yielded thousands of graphic images and videos of Uighur detainees suffering in detention camps in one of the starkest accounts yet of the ongoing humanitarian crisis caused by the country’s persecution of ethnic minorities.
The images are accompanied by training manuals, detailed police work rosters, and instructions for guarding the camps. Using a euphemism to describe inmates, one document states: “If students do not respond to warning shots and continue to try to escape, the armed police shoot to kill,” the BBC reported. Images show one prisoner in an iron torture device known as a tiger chair, which immobilizes the arms. Der Spiegel, one of the other outlets that published the tranch of hacked photos and documents, said it confirmed their authenticity in part by analyzing GPS data included in some of the images.
“The material is unprecedented on several levels,” Dr. Adrian Zenz, director and senior fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, who obtained the files and shared them with news outlets, wrote on Twitter. His thread provided a broad overview of the leaked materials that included “high-level speeches, implicating top leadership and containing blunt language,” “camp security instructions, far more detailed than China Cables [that] describe heavily armed strike units with battlefield assault rifles,” and other evidence of Uighur oppression at the hands of the Chinese government.
The material is unprecedented on several levels:
1. High-level speeches, implicating top leadership and containing blunt language2. Camp security instructions, far more detailed than China Cables, describe heavily armed strike units with battlefield assault rifles pic.twitter.com/tQUSXJU0pF
— Adrian Zenz (@adrianzenz) May 24, 2022
Most of the images and documents are available on a dedicated site. Contents include the images of 2,884 detainees, training images and Powerpoint documents for security drills, and speeches and directives from top government officials…
University-run Summer Camps are a Success
The University ran two summer camps for high school students: physics and cybercrime investigation. Read about them, here.
UNIVERSITY HOLDS CYBERCRIME INVESTIGATION CAMP
Nineteen high school students received hands-on training in investigating and thwarting cybercrimes from experts in the much-in-demand field of cyber security at The University of Scranton’s first Cybercrime Investigation Summer Camp. Run by faculty of the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice and Criminology, the camp took place July 13-15 in the University’s Center for the Analysis and Prevention of Crime on campus.
Through lectures, exercises, case discussions, the University’s data center tour, computer simulations and a capture-the-flag competition, the students learned about cyber threats, cybercriminal profiling, cyber law, cyber security and how to conduct a cyber forensics investigation. They also learned about the various roles and responsibilities assumed by professionals working in the growing field.
The job outlook for cybersecurity analysts is predicted to increase by 31 percent for the period between 2019 and 2029, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The annual median salary for cybersecurity analysts in 2020 was $103,900. The University offers a major in cybercrime and homeland security.
The camp was offered free of charge to participants through support from the University’s College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office and the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice and Criminology.
Read on, here.
UNIVERSITY HOLDS PHYSICS SUMMER CAMP
High school students were introduced to the extraordinary world of physics at a summer camp hosted at The University of Scranton. The three-day camp for 9th and 10th grade high school students, taught by University physics faculty members, included mini-lectures and hands-on activities to introduce basic physics concepts of electricity and magnetism, as well as dramatic real-life examples of these principals in action.
At the camp, which took place July 19-21, 12 high school students learned about types of waves, oscilloscopes, magnetic coils, loudspeakers and software defined radio. They built a generator, a motor, and learned to use cutting…
Clinton, Sanders Camps Aren’t Letting Go of Data Breach Scandal – Bloomberg
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Clinton, Sanders Camps Aren't Letting Go of Data Breach Scandal
Bloomberg The candidates agreed during Saturday's Democratic debate to move on from talking about Bernie Sanders' staff's breach of Hillary Clinton's data, but since then, both campaigns have shown that they're not ready to let it go. "We appreciated Senator … Bernie Sanders' campaign suspends 2 more staffers after data breach Sanders Campaign Suspends Two More Staffers Over Data Breach Clinton campaign sweats out data breach damage |