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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...

Computer Science Students Take First Place in Computer Hacking Contest Four Buena Vista University computer science majors earned first place in a computer hacking contest recently hosted by Taylor University of Upland, Ind. BVU was represented by Kelsey McConnaughy, Brieann Haberl, Tyler Freese, and Greg Tystahl. The group, advised by Dr. Nathan Backman, Associate Professor of Computer Science. 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 server. Teams must fix those vul...