Graduate student Andrew Youngstrom, Cybersecurity, will present his master’s defense on Friday, December 2, 2022, at 4 p.m. in Rekhi Hall, Room G009, and virtually. The title of the talk is, “Exploring Different Mediums for Teaching Programming and Cybersecurity in Primary and Secondary Schools.”
A story about this week’s GenCyber camp for K-12 students was aired on TV6 WLUC, Marquette, on June 29, 2022. This is the fourth GenCyber summer student camp to be hosted at Michigan Tech. The no-cost, one-week residential camp aims to teach youth about computing, safe online behavior, and cybersecurity careers. This year’s camp theme . . .
The MTU RedTeam placed 6th of 576 teams in the spring 2022 National Cyber League team capture the flag (CTF) competition, April 22-24, 2022. Congratulations, students!
Four Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity majors took first place in the Senior Design category of Design Expo 2022 for their project, “222: IoMT Device Security.” The students–Jacson Ott, Stu Kernstock, Trevor Hornsby, and Matthew Chau–are among the more than 1,000 students who participated in the event. Their winning project was sponsored by the Department . . .
Three MTU RedTeam members (Trevor Hornsby, Josh Stiebel, Ryan Klemm, Shane Hoppe) placed 5th of 119 teams in the CyberSEED capture-the-flag competition on March 26, 2022. The team, CyberSNEED, finished the event with 840 points, 94.6% completion, and 96.7% accuracy, which was the highest accuracy percentage in the top 83 teams. The team was awarded . . .
Dr. Yu Cai, Applied Computing professor, is quoted in The Detroit News story, “Cyber thieves target local, county governments as launch pad for bigger attacks,” published February 5, 2022. View the article here.