Utica College Announces Spring 2018 High Honors, Deans List

Congratulations to the following Utica College Cybersecurity Club members who have made the High Honors list with a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 4.0 for the Spring 2018 semester:

Joseph Pezzello, Cybersecurity, Sugar Loaf, NY

Kaleigh Dwyer, Cybersecurity, Denville, NJ

Matteson Williams, Cybersecurity, Bridgeport, NY

Nicholas Doerner, Cybersecurity, Utica, NY

Congratulations to the following Utica College Cybersecurity Club members who have made the Dean’s List with a GPA of 3.4 or higher:

Alexander Stein, Cybersecurity, Utica, NY

Andrew Jones, Cybersecurity, Bordentown, NJ

Cody Accorso, Cybersecurity, Rochester, NY

David Watson, Cybersecurity, Nassau, NY

Javon Edmonds Cubbage, Cybersecurity, Utica, NY

Joram Stephenson, Cybersecurity, Vestal, NY

Kory Wakeman, Cybersecurity, Utica, NY

Tristan Martin, Cybersecurity, Syracuse, NY

CNY Hackathon Results

Congratulations to team 4 on coming in first place in the CNY Hackathon! The event was hosted at Utica College with a total of 130 participants, including 19 of our Cybersecurity Club members. One Utica College Cybersecurity Club member, Tristan Martin was a member of team 4. This team did well in scoring points from keeping services running as well as gaining points from multiple Capture the Flag activities as shown in the final score results below. 

CNY Hackathon

This weekend over the night of Friday the 13th of April and all day Saturday the 14th, 19 of our Cybersecurity Club members will be participating in the CNY Hackathon at Utica College. The event will consist of a series of security presentations conducted by professionals in the industry as well as a competition between one offensive team and ten defensive teams. The defensive teams will compete to gather the most points by the end of the event. Points will be gathered by keeping services running and capturing flags. We look forward to seeing the outcome of the event!

UC3 Member Wins Talent Show

David Watson, a freshman at Utica College and a member of the Utica College Cybersecurity Club won a talent show on campus after demonstrating his skills as a magician.

Anycon 2018

Anycon is a Cybersecurity conference offering a variety of events that apply to different interests within the Cybersecurity field including the offensive track, defensive track and an education track which is designed to help introduce the field to people who may not be very familiar with it.

Capture the Flag (CTF) events address both the offensive and defensive sides of Cybersecurity by letting teams battle head-to-head over flags by having one team attack a network and having the other team defend the network to prevent the attacking team from getting flags.

Both the offensive and defensive tracks have a variety of other events to attend including talks from experts in the field and demonstrations. The offensive side of the event will include demonstrations on breaking, bypassing and hacking security controls and other systems. The defensive side will have demonstrations more focused on preventing, detecting and deterring security incidents.

Utica College Announces Fall 2017 High Honors, Deans List

Congratulations to the following Utica College students who are members of the Cybersecurity Club and earned a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 4.0 for the Fall 2017 semester:

Monica M. Johnson, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Liverpool, NY

Nicholas Doerner, Cybersecurity, Syracuse, NY

Congratulations to the following Utica College students who are members of the Cybersecurity Club and made the Dean's List a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.4 or higher for the Fall 2017 semester:

Alexander Jay Stein, Cybersecurity, Utica, NY

Andrew R. Jones, Cybersecurity, Bordentown, NJ

Carol Tran, Cybersecurity, Utica, NY

Joram Stephenson, Cybersecurity, Vestal, NY

Joseph N. Yagey, Cybersecurity, Rome, NY

Joseph Pezzello, Cybersecurity, Sugar Loaf, NY

Kory Wakeman, Cybersecurity, Syracuse, NY

Matteson Williams, Cybersecurity, Bridgeport, NY

Tristan J. Martin, Cybersecurity, Syracuse, NY

Zachary Stephen Bobka, Cybersecurity, Baldwinsville, NY

Mac OS X High Sierra 'root' security bug

On Wednesday, November 29th, 2017 Apple Inc. released a security update to patch a bug that allowed users to unlock and change settings in the Users and Groups section of System Preferences. This security flaw was discovered on Tuesday, November 28th, 2017 and worked by a user selecting the lock in System Preferences to unlock the settings and make them changeable, then they would enter "root" in the username field and leaving the password field blank, then when the user selects Unlock several times in the dialogue box, the settings would then unlock and the user had root privileges with the settings on the computer. This was a bug that existed in OS X High Sierra 10.13.1 but the bug was patched in OS X High Sierra 10.13.2 which was released on November 29th. Although this patch was released, even if the user installs the update the bug will still exist unless the computer is restarted after the update.