![]() ![]() attorney for West Virginia, revealed the investigation last Tuesday, saying that during the 2018 election cycle his office was alerted by West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner that there was an “attempted intrusion by an outside party” to access the Voatz app. I like watching people get excited about programming and computer science.Federal investigators looking into an alleged hacking attempt against the mobile app that West Virginia officials used to collect ballots from overseas voters in the 2018 election are determining if the incident was the result of computer-science students at the University of Michigan testing for vulnerabilities.ĬNN reported Friday that the FBI is investigating “a person or people” who attempted to access the app - Voatz - as part of a cybersecurity course at University of Michigan, which is one of a handful of universities with a curriculum focused on election security. “I hope people are finding out something new and getting excited about something. “I hope that a lot of people come back learning something new, whether it be from a talk or from coding,” Ratzloff said. ![]() Tashakkori said the voting committee is made up of computer science professors, associated sponsors and ACM members. The first-place prize is $100 and a 3D printed trophy, while the second-place prize is $50 awarded to the best programmer or group. One of the inclusions of AppHack is a programming contest, in which students worked on creating some type of software to be judged by a voting committee that will choose the winners at the next Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) meeting. This is like the twin turbo.”ĪppHack is interdepartmental and gets more students connected, which is why Tashakkori said it differs from Sedex. AppHack is like Sedex, but with a better engine. “Before AppHack was here its predecessor was called Sedex. “I created AppHack, but it is not novel,” Tashakkori said. Tashakkori revolutionized the event this past spring. Prior to AppHack, there was a similar event held on campus called Sedex. “There are people playing Dungeon and Dragons, video games, board games and card games, and then there are people doing computer programming.” “There’s a lot of people listening to talks and playing video games,” said Alek Ratzloff, a junior computer science major. Within the first few hours of the gathering, there were several guest speakers who presented to theĪppHack participants, including James Wilkes, the Chair of the Computer Science Department, David Sprague, the executive vice president of ECR Software Company and Appalachian professors Erich Schlenker and Mark Nystrom. “Gmail was created in a hackathon and so was the Facebook ‘like’ button.” ![]() “AppHack is a hackathon, and hackathons were developed by big companies like Google and Facebook to increase productivity of their employees by giving them a chance to contribute to the company and to be creative,” Tashakkori said. Sina Tashakkori, a computer science graduate student who has planned the last few AppHack gatherings, said AppHack is a collaborative space for the event attendees to learn outside of the classroom and contribute to their personal professional growth. AppHack, a 12-hour event in which students joined together to utilize technology to play games, create, socialize and learn, occurred Friday night in the Chemistry, Astronomy and Physics (CAP) building.Īpproximately 70 students gathered in various rooms of the CAP building beginning at 7 p.m.
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