Hugh Pickens writes "Forbes reports on a new military-funded program aimed at leveraging an untapped resource: the state of geeky high school and college students in the US. The Cyber accuse will create three new subject competitions for high school and college students intended to foster a young generation of cybersecurity researchers. 'The contests will test skills applicable to both supremacy and private industry: attacking and defending digital targets, stealing data, and tracing how others have stolen it. [...] The division of Defense's Cyber Crime Center will expand its Digital Forensics Challenge, a program it has run since 2006, to include high school and college participants, tasking them with problems like tracing digital intrusions and reconstructing incomplete data sources. In the most suspect



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autonomous organization, plans to organize the Network Attack Competition, which challenges students to find and exploit vulnerabilities in software, compromise enemy systems and steal data. Talented entries may be recruited for cyber groundwork camps planned for summer 2010, nonprofit camps run by the martial and funded in part by private companies, or internships at agencies including the national stability Agency, the precinct of Energy or Carnegie Mellon's microcomputer predicament reaction Team.'"

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