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Double Win at Hack @ 10
Monday 02 April 2018, 07:21 pm
We are pleased to share that our students attained marvelous achievements at the Hack@10 competition, that was held at University Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) recently. Hack@10 is a security competition to search new security talents among the competing students and to reward those who have successfully demonstrated their Cyber Security knowledge and skills.
APU Forensics & Cybersecurity Research Centre (FSec) Student Section coordinated and arrange the participation of our students in the competition, who were spread into three teams:
hashcow: Choong Chih Xien (APU), Alexandr Sukhamera (APU)
Cmonster: Rueben Ng Yuan Jiun, Pea Jia Ying and Lee Liang Foong
Leviathan: Teng Chee Yuen, Barath a/l Siva Kumar and Imran Esack Dawoodjee
These teams were supported by Yusnita Yusof, Nor Azlina Abd Rahman and Yogeswaran A/L Nathan from the Network, Security and Forensic (NSF) academic group under the School of Technology, Faculty of Computing, Engineering & Technology (FCET) and who also members of FSec.
After an intense 6-hour competition, two of our teams, hashcow and Leviathan won as the Champion & 2nd Runner Up. They received cash prizes of RM3000 and RM1000 respectively. Cmonster managed to be at 10th place, sharing the same score with 4 other teams (7th - 10th places). Great to know that all of our teams were among the Top 10!
Congrats to APU teams for job well done!