Students team up to stop computer hackers at UMaine competition

'Cybersecurity is one of those topics people hear about a lot but no one knows a lot about,' Matthiew Morin, a junior at Champlain College in Burlington, Vt., said at the end of the 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, held at the University of Maine. "They hear, 'Oh, this big corporation was hacked' [and] everybody needs to reset their passwords. There is a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scene.' Morin, a junior computer networking and information services student, was Champlain's team captain in the competition that pit one university against another in a cyberattack showdown. Ten teams from all over the northeast fought off a team of expert hackers brought in from around the nation for the annual three-day intensive competition... http://bangordailynews.com/2013/03/10/news/bangor/students-team-up-to-stop-computer-hackers-at-umaine-competition/ 

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