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One of the UK’s largest universities is offering the chance for Sri Lankan students to win a full-fee scholarship for a masters course in computing.
The ‘Capture the Hacker’ competition was officially launched by Sheffield Hallam University at a public lecture at the Auditorium of SLIIT Malabe Campus on Monday. SHU and SLIIT has been in an academic partnership since the year 2006 and around 700 students have either followed SHU degrees at SLIIT or transferred to SHU from SLIIT under the summer top-up program.
The winner of the competition will receive a full-fee scholarship to study MSc Information Systems Security in the UK in September 2014.
More than 200 students attended the public lecture, entitled “The Changing Face of Malicious Hacking”, by course leader Neil Richardson. Neil also ran a computer hacking workshop for SLIIT computer systems and networking students alongside Stephen Lofthouse, course leader in Big Data Analytics.
“It was fantastic to see so many students attend the lecture in Colombo. Cyber security is an expanding field and this was a great opportunity to offer a snapshot of how hackers access computer systems and how companies are taking steps to protect themselves from cyber attacks,” noted Neil.
“In the coming years, business and organisations across the world will need more and more professionals in this field. At Sheffield Hallam, we are already training our students to meet this demand,” he added.
“The students who attended the lecture and workshop in Colombo were extremely enthusiastic about information security and the chance to test their skills in the Capture the Hacker scholarship competition. We look forward to welcoming the winning student to Sheffield Hallam in September this year.”
Stephen Lofthouse was interviewed on the Rise and Shine breakfast TV show during his visit where he was able to highlight the issue of computer hacking and how it’s a growing problem facing companies across the world.
The ‘Capture the Hacker’ competition is open to students with experience of IP packets and Linux.
For details of how to enter the competition, visit www.capturethehacker.info/. The closing date is 21 March 2014.
