Category: "Conference & Seminars"
Filipino Students won Kaspersky Lab Global Cup on IT Security
University of the Philippines Students won Kaspersky Lab International IT Security Competition
Little did you know that during the series of website defacement by Team #Anonymous and #PrivateX, a group of Filipino students emerged as top winner in the global cup of Kaspersky Lab’s annual international conference dubbed ‘IT Security for the Next Generation’. The UP students bested the representative from Germany who placed second and the entry from USA, which bagged the third place.
UP students, Joshua Arvin Lat and co-authors Kevin Charles Atienza & Rod Xavier Bondoc won for the research paper “SOUL System: Secure Online USB Login System” and bagged 1,500 euros. It recommended a secure online authentication system involving a two-factor authentication scheme using a password and an ordinary USB flash drive as a security token.