The Nebraska Army National Guard’s 1057th Military Police Company is joining with local law enforcement agencies for a weekend of simulated active shooter scenario training at Chadron High School.
Thursday, December 31, 2020
BVU senior Kelsey McConnaughy
Four Buena Vista University computer science majors earned first place in a computer hacking contest recently hosted by Taylor University of Upland, Ind. For one of the team members, Kelsey McConnaughy, the title represents a wonderful way to cap her BVU undergraduate career.
Winning the competition was a fun experience, says McConnaughy, a December 2020 graduate who begins her career as an application developer I at Professional Computer Solutions (PCS) in Denison on Jan. 4.
The contest requires teams to find vulnerabilities (bugs) in application code that can lead to the theft of confidential data (flags in the simulation) residing on the servers. Teams must fix those vulnerabilities to prevent the theft of their flags. If a team hasnt fixed code and, thus, protected its flag, other teams may capture their flag.
Under Investigation – 2
Through Monday afternoon the Panhandle has seen 7,527 total cases, 14 active hospitalizations, a positivity rate over the prior week of 34.5% and a doubling time of 48 days from Nov. 9 through Dec. 27.
The Panhandle risk dial remained steady in the middle of the orange, or high category.
Dr. Kevin Reichmuth, Pulmonologist at Nebraska Pulmonology Specialties of Lincoln and Nebraska Army National Guard Colonel, joined the Panhandle briefing to outline the vaccine science and dispel circulating myths.
Reichmuth shared messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines are a new type of vaccine to protect against infectious diseases. To trigger an immune response, many vaccines put a weakened or inactivated germ into our bodies. mRNA vaccines teach our cells how to make a protein-or even a piece of a protein-that triggers an immune response inside our bodies. That immune response, which produces antibodies, is what protects us from getting infected if the real virus enters our b