May 9, 2008

Students Compete to Mount Best Defense Against Malicious Hackers

By ROBIN MEJIA

Brandon Hladysh's business was in trouble. Mr. Hladysh, a junior at Baker College of Flint, in southern Michigan, was supposed to be managing the computer network of a small company, but hackers had attacked, and several of his computer servers were down. In a battle with unseen enemies on the network, Mr. Hladysh and his colleagues thought they were losing.

It was scant consolation that the struggle wasn't real. It was the end of the first day of the National Collegiate Cyber Defense

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