Hackers of all stripes gather in Downtown Brooklyn for NYU-Poly’s 2013 Cyber Security Awareness Week
Downtown Brooklyn was Ground Zero for white-hat hackers over the past week, as cyber security professionals, researchers and students gathered for the 10th annual Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW).
The conference had something for everyone, from one of the world’s biggest cyber Capture the Flag competitions, to a hardware “embedded systems” competition, a high school digital murder-mystery, career fair and Department of Homeland Security trivia quiz.
While mostly undergrads (and one high school team) played in the 36-hour Capture the Flag event, Ph.D. students competed for best published student cyber security research. One of them, Masoud Rostami from Rice University, described a new way to prevent hackers from taking over implanted medical devices (IMD) such as pacemakers, insulin pumps, defibrillators.