MIT, University of Cambridge to Stage Cyber War
From: Government Technology
Teams from the schools will sweat it out in a game of cyber Capture the Flag, where each team will try to steal secrets from their opponent’s computer while keeping their foe out of their own system.
by Jordan Graham, Boston Herald
(TNS) The brightest young minds on either side of the Atlantic will wage pretend cyber war in a “Cambridge vs. Cambridge” competition as part of a joint effort announced Jan. 16 by President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron to bolster cooperation between the two countries to counter hacking and improve cybersecurity.
Teams from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge will sweat it out in a game of cyber Capture the Flag, where each team will try to steal secrets from their opponent’s computer while keeping their foe out of their own system.
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