The Department of Computer Science and Engineering offered the GenCyber Teachers Camp on June 10-14, 2024. The goal of this camp was to boost the cybersecurity expertise of middle and high school teachers. A total of 19 teachers mainly from the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metropolitan area, including Dallas, Keller, Plano, Coppell, Frisco, Arlington, McKinney, Garland, and Irving ISDs, participated in the camp.

Drs. Hyunsook Do and Kirill Morozov attended the GenCyber 2024 Spring Meeting on April 18-19 and participated in the workshop discussing the EPNC/RING resources, which provided free and ready-to-use resources for students, teachers, and counselors. The session introduced various websites for cybersecurity resources (e.g., online games, lecture materials, etc.), and it was very informative, and we shared this information with our camp participants (teachers).

UNT team (under Dr. Ram Dantu's supervision) receives 2nd place in the Spirit of Innovation competition on 12th April 2024 in Dallas, Texas. The event was organized by the US India Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

More Texas companies and governments added to list of cyberattack victims
Luxury hospitality giant Omni Hotels & Resorts is only the latest in a long line of companies that have fallen victim to a cybersecurity attack.

Texas has become the target of cyberattacks due to a lack of investment in cyber protection, said Ram Dantu, director of the Center for Information and Cyber Security at the University of North Texas.