Another timely post from one of our cybersecurity students

Some new and exciting things are coming to the world of hackers, and one of them is a bug bounty offered by Microsoft.   Microsoft is offering hackers up to $100,000 if they can break the security of their new compact and custom version of Linux OS.   You won’t know your own limits unless you push them, so if you think you have what it takes, check out the information below.  

https://www.blufitblog.com/post/9-2-100-000-bug-bounty-up-for-grabs-this-summer

Expanding on the activities of our National Cyber League team three BU students and two faculty members joined forces with a Colorado based space technology company to compete in the Department of Defense sponsored DEFCON Hack-a-Sat capture the flag (CTF) competition. Over the course of the Memorial Day weekend players were presented with multiple challenges centered around exploiting the various technologies utilized in communicating with and securing satellite ground stations, communication links, and on orbit satellites. All entities were simulated but the technology was real. The purpose of the competition was to select ten teams to move on to the finals at virtual DEFCON where players would be exposed to more virtual and some live entities to discover security flaws for the DoD. The ultimate bug bounty program! BU’s team did not make it to the final 10 but did place 68th out of 1,268 teams.