<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> [ECP] Educational CyberPlayGround K-12 Newsletter Located on the Blog Educational CyberPlayGround Blog: http://blog.edu-cyberpg.com/ SIGN UP and GET POSTS DELIVERED TO YOUR EMAIL *Subscribe to the ECP Blog Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/EducationalCyberPlayGround *Find your School in the ECP K-12 School Directory http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/schools/ *Link to the Educational CyberPlayGround http://www.edu-cyberpg.com <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> Pentagon Seeks High School Hackers http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/21/cybersecurity-students-hackers-technology-security-cybersecurity.html By Andy Greenberg Forbes.com 05.21.09 High school hackers, crackers and digital deviants: Uncle Sam wants you. As part of a government information security review released as early as Friday, White House interim cybersecurity chief Melissa Hathaway likely will mention a new military-funded program aimed at leveraging an untapped resource: the U.S.' population of geeky high school and college students. The so-called Cyber Challenge, which will be officially announced later this month, will create three new national competitions for high school and college students intended to foster a young generation of cybersecurity researchers. The contests will test skills applicable to both government and private industry: attacking and defending digital targets, stealing data, and tracing how others have stolen it. The competitions, as planned, go far beyond mere academics. The Air Force will run a so-called Cyber Patriot competition focused on network defense, fending off a "Red Team" of hackers attempting to steal data from the participants' systems. The Department of Defense's Cyber Crime Center will expand its Digital Forensics Challenge, a program it has run since 2006, to include high school and college participants, tasking them with problems like tracing digital intrusions and reconstructing incomplete data sources. [...] <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> [ECP] Educational CyberPlayGround K12 Newsletters © Set Mailing List Preferences: Subscribe - Unsubscribe - Digest http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/K12Newsletters.html Copyright statements to be included when reproducing annotations from the Educational CyberPlayGround K-12 Newsletter The single phrase below is the copyright notice to be used when reproducing any portion of this report, in any format: > EDUCATIONAL CYBERPLAYGROUND > http://www.edu-cyberpg.com > Educational CyberPlayGround K-12 Newsletter copyright > http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/K12Newsletters.html Advertise K12 Newsletters http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/Subguidelines.html <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>