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2 UCF Students to Compete on the 2024 U.S. Cyber Team

November 8, 2023
The students, who qualified due to excellent performances in other cybersecurity challenges, will compete worldwide in various competitions while representing the nation. Two UCF computer science students have made it to the Olympics of collegiate cybersecurity competitions by being drafted as members of the U.S. Cyber Team. As part of the team, they will represent…

UCF Earns 4th CyberForce National Championship

November 7, 2023
One team secured first place and another ranked fourth in the competition against some of the nation’s top cybersecurity students. UCF is becoming a cybersecurity dynasty. A UCF student team defeated more than 94 teams from across the country last weekend to win the university’s fourth U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CyberForce Competition. This year…

New UCF Project is Harnessing Virtual Reality to Teach Quantum Computing

October 20, 2023
The multi-institutional work is funded by a nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Researchers from the University of Central Florida, University of Texas at Dallas and Vanderbilt University have received a three-year, $927,203 grant for advancing future quantum education by using virtual reality (VR) and machine learning to identify and address…

UCF C3 Team Wins First Place at the Southeast Collegiate Pen Testing Competition

October 18, 2023
  A team of six Knights – IT sophomore Noah Magill; IT senior Colton Knight; computer science seniors Zachary Groome, Harrison Keating and Matthew McKeever; and cyber security and privacy master’s student Jeffrey DiVincent – took first place in the Southeast Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition Regional. Ten schools were selected to compete in the southeast…

UCF C3 Team Wins Second Place at Raymond James Capture the Flag Competition

October 11, 2023
A team of five Knights – computer science undergraduates Matthew McKeever and Harrison Keating, digital forensics master’s students Caitlin Cameron and Cameron Whitehead, and cyber security and privacy master’s student Jeffrey DiVincent – placed second at the Raymond James Capture the Flag competition, bringing home a $5,000 cash prize. A total of 12 schools participated…

UCF C3 Team Wins First Place at Hack the Building 2.0: Hospital Edition

October 9, 2023
Members of UCF’s collegiate cybersecurity competition team have again taken first-place honors, this time at the Hack the Building 2.0: Hospital Edition competition in Columbia, Md. The group of five Knights, all computer science students and members of Hack@UCF – Zachary Groome, Harrison Keating, Colton Knight, Matthew McKeever and Nick Procaccio – beat out nine…