{"id":8991,"date":"2016-03-14T12:10:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T16:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?p=8991"},"modified":"2016-08-25T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T16:11:37","slug":"teaching-the-next-generation-hacking-with-holyoke-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2016\/03\/14\/teaching-the-next-generation-hacking-with-holyoke-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching the Next Generation &#8211; Hacking with Holyoke Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University researchers, including\u00a0Hariri Institute Founding Director,\u00a0Azer Bestavros, hosted\u00a0a free, hands-on cybersecurity workshop \u00a0at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke, MA on December 12, 2015. The Hacking with Holyoke Codes workshop was attended by over 20 young people who learned about secret codes and cryptography. Both kids and their parents participated in activities such as passwords cracking and a Capture the Flag Hacking Contest.<\/p>\n<p>The event, hosted\u00a0in conjunction with Computer Science Education Week, was sponsored by the Western Massachusetts Chapter of the Computer Science Teachers Association, Holyoke Codes, and Girls Inc of Holyoke. Support was provided by the National Science Foundation Grant through Boston University &#8211; MACS: A Modular Approach to Cloud Security.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mghpcc.org\/hacking-with-holyoke-codes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University researchers, including\u00a0Hariri Institute Founding Director,\u00a0Azer Bestavros, hosted\u00a0a free, hands-on cybersecurity workshop \u00a0at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke, MA on December 12, 2015. The Hacking with Holyoke Codes workshop was attended by over 20 young people who learned about secret codes and cryptography. Both kids and their parents participated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11716],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8992,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions\/8992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}