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Monmouth County Student Named ‘National Cyber Scholar’

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MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ — The National Cyber Scholarship Foundation recently awarded 11 students from New Jersey county vocational technical schools with the coveted “National Cyber Scholar” designation following a 48-hour national competition.

Noah Rediker of High Technology High School in Lincroft was among the list of students to receive the honor following the National Cyber Scholarship competition, which is designed to evaluate aptitude in combating cyber threats and encourage students to become part of the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.

Juniors and seniors named National Cyber Scholars, like Rediker, will qualify for scholarships and training opportunities. This year, 91 New Jersey students garnered more than $432,500 in funding.

“This competition highlights the immense talent we have in New Jersey, and we are proud of all of those who participated and had their efforts recognized at the national level,” said Jared M. Maples, director of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness. “The passion for cybersecurity exemplified by these young individuals gives us hope that the safety and security of New Jersey and the nation will remain in capable hands in the future.”

According to the New Jersey Council of County Vocational-Technical Schools, New Jersey produced five times as many NCS Scholars as states of similar population size, such as Virginia and Maryland, and was on par with much larger states, like Texas and California.

There are several pathways to qualify for the next NCS competition, including CyberStart America, a free online program that helps students discover their interest in cybersecurity and develop their talent and skills.

This year, a record-breaking 2,188 New Jersey high school students registered to attempt various computer security puzzles and challenges that tested their skills in areas such as password cracking, reverse-engineering, memory corruption, and cryptography.

Registration for the 2021/22 CyberStart Game program will open in October. For more information on CyberStart America, visit www.cyberstartamerica.org.

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Stanford student who recovered $27,000 for ransomware victims talks ethical hacking

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As a high school student, Jack Cable ’21 hacked the Pentagon through a government-sponsored program created to find bugs in Air Force security networks. Upon arriving at Stanford, he set up a bug bounty program and worked with large enterprises to secure their digital systems. In April, he hacked ransomware, saving victims over $27,000.

Certainly, Cable isn’t your ordinary student. In 2018, Time Magazine named him among the world’s 25 most influential teens. In his spare time, he consults for the Department of Homeland Security, working to secure election systems.

The Daily sat down with Cable to discuss his latest achievement: hacking the QLocker ransomware, work for which the Secretary of Homeland Security recognized him as a “tremendous example of how even a single person can make a huge difference.”

The ransomware, which Cable said likely originated from eastern Europe, locked victims’ files until they paid the hackers.

Cable first heard about the ransomware from a family friend whose computer was affected by the attack. The family friend, who is a physician, was ready to pay the requested 0.01 Bitcoin for the laptop’s release, as he had sensitive patient data on his laptop. 

When Cable heard about the incident, he tried his hand at cracking the ransomware. After trying an arsenal of techniques to crack the system, it came to him. 

“Thinking through some of the stuff I’ve seen with bug bounties — that people don’t consider all the edge cases — I tried changing a letter in the bitcoin address from lowercase to uppercase,” he said.

The subtle change immediately unlocked the files, fooling the system into thinking the victims had paid for their laptops’ release.

Cable took it a step further, tweeting that any others affected by the virus should contact him. He was able to recover $27,000 before the hackers fixed their vulnerabilities.

Cable has made a name for himself in the world of “white hat,” or ethical hacking, both in and out of Stanford. Stanford Chief Information Security Officer Michael Tran Duff wrote that Cable helped inaugurate the University’s bug bounty program, one of the first of its kind in higher education. The program…

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PetrSU teachers in the jury of the student conference “First frontier” – India Education,Education News India,Education News

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The works of the participants were evaluated by a jury, which included an associate professor of the Department of Technology and Organization of Construction of the Institute of Forest, Mining and Construction Sciences.
Lecturer at the Institute of Forestry, Mining and Construction Sciences Yu.V. Nikonova took part in the jury of the scientific-practical conference of students “The First Frontier” on the basis of the Petrozavodsk Presidential Cadet School.

Individual projects of students were defended at various sections of the conference. At the section “Exact Sciences and Engineering Sciences (Applied and Fundamental Mathematics, Physics and Applied Mechanics, Information Cybernetic Systems and Computer Modeling, Informatics, Computing Machinery and Computer Security”, the work of the participants was evaluated by a jury, which included an associate professor of the Department of Technology and Organization of Construction Yu.V. Nikonova.

Schoolchildren presented more than 10 reports to the jury. The topics of the reports were topical, many works are of practical importance. Some guys presented experimental models to demonstrate their research. All studies were well developed, but the reports “Paper airplane”, “Catalog of educational videos” Physics of flight “,” Robotic reconnaissance system “ESH-1”, “Creation and testing of hydrophobic impregnations”, “Automated linguistic simulator” aroused special interest.


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Report: LSU student arrested for installing malware on University computers | News

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A 25-year-old LSU student was arrested Friday for allegedly installing malware on 169 University devices over the course of two years, according to WBRZ.

LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard said LSUPD arrested the student and booked him into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Friday.

A campus technology services employee found a USB drive allegedly left by Carlos Munoz-Salazar in an infected computer. Police said the University was able to use the USB to determine when Salazar next logged onto a campus computer. An employee then found him at the infected computer and took a picture of his Tiger ID. 

Police said the software found on the computers allegedly allowed Salazer to remotely control the University devices and download programs which enabled him to mine cryptocurrency. Since his arrest, Salazer admitted to making approximately $2,500 from mining virtual currency on LSU computers. 

There are reports dating back to June 2018 when this specific software was used, and the attacks continued up until July 23, 2020, when the University’s IT department blocked the software. 

Salazar was booked on 169 counts of computer tampering and computer fraud and is awaiting trial. 

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