Universities Engages In Hacking Competition

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 In a bid for students to learn how to defend security in the cyberspace, Dr Stajano who is a reader in Security and Privacy at Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University organised a hacking contest called the "Inter-ACE Cyberchallenge.

 Dr Stajano explained that it's a tournament of hacking fought this year between 10 of United Kingdom's  13 Academic centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research.

 He explained that the hacking competition was more of of sports, were challengers have to perform the same type of attacks the black-hacker (A black-hacker is a person that hacks for profit in a mysterious way)  does on enterprise computers.