Terra 'codebreakers' topple big schools in national competition
The Beacon Terra State Community College cybersecurity students completed the annual National Security Agency (NSA) Codebreaker Challenge recently, finishing in 14th in the 452-school competition against many of the country’s major four-year universities. Terra’s 33 students participated in two phases of challenges that started back in October. Students applied their computer skills about cracking passwords, social engineering, complex mathematic computations and reverse engineering software to solve problems in a fictional story. “The challenge presented many great opportunities for...
Source: thebeacon.net