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Roane State students analyze Election Commission website for hacking

Posted at 10:15 pm December 12, 2019
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Roane State Digital Forensics Cyber Security
A team of students from Roane State Community College’s Digital Forensics class was recently requested by Homeland Security to explore the cyber hygiene vulnerability of the Election Commission website of a West Tennessee county. (Photo courtesy RSCC)

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Roane State team assesses Election Commission website for vulnerabilities

A team of students from Roane State Community College’s Digital Forensics class was recently requested by Homeland Security to explore the cyber hygiene vulnerability of the Election Commission website of a West Tennessee county, said George Meghabghab, head of the college’s computer science division.

The project was initiated by Homeland Security official James Cotter, who met with Meghabghab during July and August to flesh out the project, including expectations from each other and outcomes. Such a project is ongoing on other Tennessee election commission websites, Meghabghab said. He described the efforts as critical tasks of Homeland Security in Tennessee.

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Filed Under: College, Education, Front Page News, Government, Top Stories Tagged With: computer science, cyber hygiene, digital forensics, Election Commission website, George Meghabghab, hacking, homeland security, James Cotter, Roane State Community College

Cybersecurity brown bag lunch on Monday: ‘Cyber Hygiene for Individuals and Small Businesses’

Posted at 2:27 am April 7, 2017
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The Cyber and Information Security Consortium, or CISC, and the University of Tennessee’s Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy have partnered to hold monthly brown bag lunches to hear talks on key topics regarding cybersecurity, a press release said.

The next lunch will take place next week in the UT Outreach Center in Oak Ridge, and it will be on the subject of cyber hygiene.

Topic: “Cyber Hygiene for Individuals and Small Businesses”

Speaker: Scott Partelow, managing consultant for enterprise solutions at Sword and Shield Enterprise Security [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, College, Education, Front Page News Tagged With: CISC, Cyber and Information Security Consortium, cyber hygiene, cybersecurity, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, Scott Partelow, Sword and Shield Enterprise Security, University of Tennessee, UT Outreach Center

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