{"id":206853,"date":"2025-10-29T12:34:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/?p=206853"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:34:48","slug":"school-of-computing-students-among-top-teams-at-capture-the-flag-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/2025\/10\/29\/school-of-computing-students-among-top-teams-at-capture-the-flag-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Computing Students Among Top Teams at Capture the Flag Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 19, 2025, students from the School of Computing at 星空无限传媒 University proudly participated in the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/isc2njctf.co\/\" target=\"_blank\">ISC2 Chapter\u2019s \u201cCapture the Flag for Novices 2025\u201d hackathon<\/a>, hosted at <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saint Peter\u2019s University<\/a> in Jersey City, NJ.\u00a0The event gathered students, professionals, and cybersecurity enthusiasts from across the state for a full day of interactive learning and challenges in cryptography, web exploitation, digital forensics, and network defense. The hackathon emphasized problem-solving, teamwork, and practical cybersecurity skills.\u00a0The 星空无限传媒 team showcased impressive technical ability and collaboration, earning the 4th place among many competing teams. Their success reflects the university\u2019s growing strength in hands-on cybersecurity education and experiential learning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-half\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/school-of-computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/266\/2025\/10\/isc2-hackathon-flyer.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/school-of-computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/266\/2025\/10\/isc2-hackathon-flyer.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"ISC2 Capture the Flag Hackathon flyer\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-half\">\n<h2>Team Members<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Darryl Carpenter<\/li>\n<li>Anower Zihad<\/li>\n<li>Vinod Gurram<\/li>\n<li>Mohd Abdul Subhan<\/li>\n<li>Harika Koduri<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The team was guided and supported by <a href=\"\/~othmanr\">Ramy Othman<\/a>, Assistant Director of Technology and Infrastructure in the College of Science and Mathematics. Ramy, an alumni of\u00a0 helped the students with the competition and strengthened their cybersecurity problem-solving skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event provided a free, beginner-friendly cybersecurity competition designed for students, professionals, and enthusiasts to learn, collaborate, and compete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":206855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-opportunities","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206853"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206862,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206853\/revisions\/206862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}