Month: March 2013

For the sixth year in a row, the University of Washington has won the Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Next month the team will head to San Antonio in an attempt to win their third consecutive National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition crown.

Amazonians got an opportunity to play Control-Alt-Hack after a day of internal training. Control-Alt-Hack is a computer security-themed card game that is designed to be both fun and educational.

Batman’s Kitchen, an interdisciplinary team involving students from CSE, the iSchool, EE, and pre-engineering, won the Hawaiian “Big Splash” Cyber Defense Competition held 8-10 March 2013. See the UW CSE News site for more information.

CSE professor Yoshi Kohno is profiled in the March issue of Columns, UW’s alumni magazine.

“Kohno’s experiments are the stuff of science fiction movies: using a kid’s Erector Set to spy on its owner, tracking a runner using his mileage monitor or even hackers taking over a car while it’s driving and forcing it to brake to a stop. The only difference between Hollywood make-believe and reality is that this white hat hacker doesn’t need special effects to make them reality.”

Read the full article here.