Hackers of all stripes gather in Downtown Brooklyn for NYU-Poly’s 2013 Cyber Security Awareness Week


Downtown Brooklyn was Ground Zero for white-hat hackers over the past week, as cyber security professionals, researchers and students gathered for the 10th annual Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW).

The conference had something for everyone, from one of the world’s biggest cyber Capture the Flag competitions, to a hardware “embedded systems” competition, a high school digital murder-mystery, career fair and Department of Homeland Security trivia quiz.

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