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IT Student Organization of The Year: A-BITS Missouri State
1st Place
Hoang Dang and Ha Nguyen
2nd Place
Tyler Olson
3rd Place
Tyler Olson
Honorable Mention
Ha Nguyen and Jessica Snare
Honorable Mention
Riley Mulroy, Tyler Olson, Ian Ulrich, and Alex Raibley
A-BITS Members Excel At 2024 USITCC. During the 2024 regional USITCC, six members placed in four different competitions. Five of these students also managed to place within the top three and take home a trophy.
Second Place
Alex Raibley and Riley Mulroy
Runner Up
Andrew Lewis
Second Place
Reid Biggers and Jessica Snare
Second Place
Tyler Olson
Runner Up
Riley Mulroy
A-BITS has once again showcased its excellence in information technology. Eighteen team members received awards at the sixth annual U.S. Information Technology Collegiate Conference (USITCC), which took place in Shreveport, Louisiana, from April 4-6.
3rd Place
AJ Moles and Bach Nguyen
Honorable Mention
Nicolas Loke and Rajan Shukla
1st Place
Alexander Raibley and Ian Ulrich
2nd Place
Jessica Snare and Reid Biggers
3rd Place
Ian Brown
1st Place
Nicolas Loke and Rajan Shukla
2nd Place
Alexander Gutierrez and Cheryle Rash
Honorable Mention
Gabriel Fox and Lyle Rich
Honorable Mention
Tyler Olson
A coordinated ransomware attack has disrupted hospital systems across 12 states, forcing some emergency rooms to divert patients. Cybersecurity experts warn this may be the work of a Russian cybercrime group.
Read Full StoryThe Biden administration unveiled sweeping new cybersecurity requirements for water, energy, and transportation systems, marking the most significant expansion of federal cyber regulations in a decade.
Read Full StoryA new report from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike shows attackers are increasingly using generative AI to create sophisticated phishing campaigns and automate vulnerability discovery.
Read Full StoryMicrosoft released emergency patches for a vulnerability in Windows that was being exploited by nation-state hackers. The flaw allowed complete system takeover without user interaction.
Read Full StoryIn a coordinated international operation, law enforcement took down the infrastructure of the "Viper" botnet that had been used for DDoS attacks, data theft, and ransomware deployment.
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Department Head of Information Technology
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) — A global technology outage caused by a faulty software update has impacted businesses across the Ozarks.
The glitch impacted banks and government agencies and delayed flights at the Springfield-Branson National Airport.
"When it comes to your personal login, while you may not be able to access your accounts, it doesn't mean that your account has been compromised. It depends on which systems they are running."
Cyber expert Dr. Xiang Guo, the Department Head of Information Technology at Missouri State University, says a misconfiguration like this can cause more problems than a cyberattack.
"This update has a batch where one file got corrupted," said Dr. Guo. "The corruption caused the system instabilities, and they only affected Windows-based machines. Once this OS gets corrupted, you get a blue screen of death, so basically, your machine goes down, and you can do nothing with it."
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