{"id":4880,"date":"2024-02-21T15:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T11:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:50","slug":"cyber-workshop-introduces-students-to-digital-dangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2024\/02\/21\/cyber-workshop-introduces-students-to-digital-dangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber workshop introduces students to digital dangers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Muhammad Hashid Jaffar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH &#8211; The Society of Cybersecurity at the American University of Sharjah held an event Feb. 8, called \u201cThe Art of Digital Intrusion: Advanced Cybersecurity Tactics,\u201d to expose students to the field of cybersecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hands-on workshop was a beginner-friendly event which organizers said was meant to spread awareness about cyber threats. The session taught students about methods hackers can use to penetrate a web server to collect data, hack into a user\u2019s ID and password, and cause some form of disturbance on the web.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jaizal Ali, the director and chief operating officer of RedTeam Academy, was the presenter of the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The session utilized various programs such as Kali Linux (a tool to simulate the attacker) and VulnHub ColdBox (a tool to simulate the victim).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Muhammad Hashid Jaffar UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH &#8211; The Society of Cybersecurity at the American University of Sharjah held an event Feb. 8, called \u201cThe Art of Digital Intrusion: Advanced Cybersecurity Tactics,\u201d to expose students to the field of cybersecurity. The hands-on workshop was a beginner-friendly event which organizers said was meant to spread awareness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,35,21,49],"class_list":["post-4880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-campus-news","tag-aus","tag-clubs","tag-safety","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}