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Meet the ASU Hacking Club

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‘Join in the journey to a perfectly hacked world’: ASU Hacking Club’s goal is to teach new hackers the basics of the subject

A person types on computer with an illustration of the pitchfork in binary code

A modest, brutalist website lights up the screen, reminiscent of a time when the internet was crafted by hand with simple code. While the word ‘hack’ is plastered all over the web page, a call to action sits at the bottom:

“To join the fray, get on our Discord. The invite has been embedded in your browser client. Find it.”

The ASU Hacking Club has been known by many names. Until most recently, the on-campus group was known as “pwndevils,” while those most “leet,” or elite, are also inducted into the more exclusive hacking team, “Shellphish.” 

Zion Leonahenahe Basque, president of the club and a Ph.D. student studying computer science — and undoubtedly a “leet” hacker — is a proponent for the club’s recent rebrand.

“The transition from pwndevils to the Hacking Club was a deliberate attempt to give us a different image to the public,” Basque said. “We wanted to completely redesign how people thought about our club on campus. We wanted to become this type of iconic, semi-exclusive, enigmatic hacking club.”

Basque, a Hawaii native, Laboratory of Security Engineering for Future Computing researcher and hardened Shellphish veteran, wants to be clear, however, that you don’t have to be an expert to join the club.

“I joined this club when I was a freshman at ASU. I had never done security stuff before,” Basque said. “Hacking is not about being the smartest…

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BlackBerry Stock Rises As Earnings Meet Expectations As Security Revenue Disclosed

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BlackBerry earnings for the May quarter fell from a year earlier but met expectations as revenue edged by Wall Street targets. BlackBerry stock rose on the news as it broke out computer security software revenue for the first time.




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Canada-based BlackBerry (BB) reported a 5-cent loss on an adjusted basis for the quarter ending May 31. Revenue fell 16% to $174 million, including $107 million in cybersecurity sales and $43 million in “Internet of Things” sales, the company said. IoT revenue includes automotive software.

Analysts expected BlackBerry to report a 5-cent per-share loss on revenue of $171.3 million. In the year-earlier quarter, Blackberry stock earned 2 cents per share on revenue of $206 million.

BlackBerry stock rose 1.4% to 12.86 in extended trading on the stock market today. In Thursday’s regular session, shares fell 3.5%.

Blackberry Stock: Intellectual Property Sale Expected

Analysts expected lower intellectual property licensing revenue to impact the BlackBerry earnings report. The company is in talks to sell its intellectual property portfolio. BlackBerry garners about 30% of revenue from intellectual property fees.

Blackberry stock has gained some 92% in 2021, though shares retreated heading into the fiscal first-quarter earnings report. Investors using social media have driven BB stock and other so-called meme stocks higher, including AMC Entertainment (AMC), GameStop (GME) and Clover Health (CLOV).

Here’s an in-depth look at BB stock, using IBD technical and fundamental analysis.

A one-time leading maker of mobile devices, BlackBerry was a driving force in pagers and cellphones. But its hardware business collapsed in 2008 amid competition from Apple (AAPL) iPhones and Android devices.

BlackBerry pivoted to mobile security software under Chief Executive John Chen. Also, BlackBerry has been a provider of software in the automotive market for entertainment and mapping programs.

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Pima Community College opens new auto tech center to meet high demand for technicians

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Pima Community College unveiled its new automotive tech center in downtown Tucson with a goal to help meet high demand for skilled technicians in the industry, including Arizona’s growing electric and autonomous vehicle manufacturing sector. 

The opening of the Automotive Technology and Innovation Center is just the start of a major effort by the district to expand technical training to produce tech workers in other fields and stimulate the local economy. 

Lee Lambert

It’s also the realization of a long sought-after goal for Chancellor Lee Lambert, who came to the district in 2013. 

“I think there’s many of you in this community, I know especially the dealers and all the other automotive folks, you’ve been waiting for this moment,” Lambert said at the recent ribbon cutting for the center. 

Programs in diesel, electric and autonomous vehicles 

Located at the school’s downtown Tucson campus, the two-story, 50,000 square feet center will support programs in diesel, electric and autonomous vehicles and increase training for specific brands such as Ford, Fiat-Chrysler and Subaru. 

Students can study engine diagnosis and repair, electrical fundamentals, steering, alignment, brakes and other programs. 

Education paying off for grads 

Automotive technicians who complete a two-year Automotive Technology Associate degree earn over 20 percent more, on average, than a technician without a degree, college officials said. An automotive technology degree also is a step towards other careers in the field, whether as a dealership manager, mechanic, salesperson or specialist focused on improving the future of automotive technology, school officials said.

Technicians in Arizona are earning an average $22.41 per hour, about 8 percent higher than the national average, according to employment website Indeed.  

Severe auto tech shortage 

There are plenty of positions available for grads. By 2024, the industry is projected to be short by approximately 642,000 automotive, diesel, and collision technicians, according to a report issued by the Phoenix-based TechForce Foundation last year.

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Google Pixel phones first to meet the Common Criteria’s MDF protection profile on Android 11

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Google Pixel smartphones may lack in terms of the overall hardware besides their cameras, but the fastest software updates make them immensely desirable. Pixel devices not only get the best Android features before others, but they also get top-notch security with monthly security updates. In addition to these updates, the dedicated Titan M security chip is claimed to offer enterprise-grade privacy protection. Now, the Pixel devices running Android 11 are also the first to meet Common Criteria’s MDF security standards.

Mobile Device Fundamentals (MDF) Protection Profile by Common Criteria outlines guidelines that IT companies across 31 countries around the world must follow. These guidelines ensure the enterprise user data is safeguarded by “strongest possible protections,” Google notes in a blog post. This certification allows Google to endorse its Pixel devices running Android 11 — i.e., Pixel 3 and above — which are the best-suited devices for corporate users with a lot of sensitive data to protect.

What makes Common Criteria’s MDF guidelines even more convincing is that the evaluation is performed in a lab where experts test a device’s resilience against various “real-world threats facing both consumers and businesses.” The tests are performed to warrant “every mitigation works as advertised.” To verify the mitigations in case of different threats on Pixel devices, the lab evaluates the function of:

  • Protected Communications – to ensure traffic across all communications and networks, including Wi-Fi, are encrypted.
  • Protected Storage – to ensure storage encryption and tamper-proof mechanisms such as the Titan M chip.
  • Authorization and Authentication – to check against spoofing and false acceptance
  • Mobile Device Integrity – to verify Android’s implementation of Verified Boot, Google Play System Updates, and Seamless OS Updates.
  • Auditability – for users to reports or IT admins to check for events such as device start-up and shutdown, data encryption, data decryption, and key management.
  • Mobile Device Configuration – for enterprise admins to enforce Android Enterprise’s security policies for the camera, location, or app installation.

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