UW cyber stars defending their title

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018035088_cyber21m.html

By Katherine Long
Seattle Times higher education reporter
April 20, 2012

Somewhere in Texas right now, 30 hackers known as the Red Team are 
attacking a computer network called Go Mommy, using every trick to try 
to bring it to its knees.

Among the defenders: Eight computer-science students from the University 
of Washington, working to repel the attack — quite possibly while 
humming the "Angry Birds" theme song.

If the hackers follow the script from years past, they might taunt the 
students by replacing the network's home screen with a giant picture of 
David Hasselhoff.

Or leave a trail of empty folders to show they've gotten into the 
system, the first one labeled "Batman" and the subsequent folders 
labeled after the beats of the old TV show's theme song: da-da, da-da, 
da-da, da-da...

Or they might start wiping everything off the networked computers, then 
restart them, leaving empty shells in place of working machines.

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