Cusat wins cyber security challenge

  • | Tuesday | 13th November, 2018

At the finals held at IIT Kanpur campus, teams were invited for a presentation and live demonstration. "Cusat team stood apart by making use of primary colours to send information. KOCHI: A Cochin University of Science and Science Technology (Cusat) team has won the embedded security challenge (ESC) at IIT Kanpur, organized as part of Cyber Security Awareness Week 'CSAW2018' at IIT Kanpur.Teams from IIT Kharagpur and Kanpur were placed second and third among the finalists. Other contestants were IIT Madras, who won the challenge in 2017, IIIT Allahabad and Amrita University.The prize comes with a citation and a cash award of Rs 50,000. While the bulb was 100% bright red for the observing user, the low-intensity blue or green was sending information.

KOCHI: A Cochin University of Science and Science Technology (Cusat) team has won the embedded security challenge (ESC) at IIT Kanpur, organized as part of Cyber Security Awareness Week 'CSAW2018' at IIT Kanpur.Teams from IIT Kharagpur and Kanpur were placed second and third among the finalists. Other contestants were IIT Madras, who won the challenge in 2017, IIIT Allahabad and Amrita University.The prize comes with a citation and a cash award of Rs 50,000. The team had Bijoy A Jose, who leads the cyber physical systems (CPS) lab at the department of electronics, Cusat, as faculty adviser, and first-year doctoral students Akhil P and Gisha C G as members.ESC 2018 is a world-wide event held simultaneously in four regions US-Canada, Europe, Middle East & North Africa and India.Finalists were chosen by an open call to demonstrate hacking abilities. Chosen teams were sent a Bluetooth-connected smart bulb, which can be made to change colours via a mobile application.Challenge given to participants was to hack the bulb to send covert information. Contestants were given a few weeks to come up with the hack. At the finals held at IIT Kanpur campus, teams were invited for a presentation and live demonstration."Cusat team stood apart by making use of primary colours to send information. While the bulb was 100% bright red for the observing user, the low-intensity blue or green was sending information. A slight variation at low intensities in blue or green was used to send binary information packets," said Jose.Since red was at 100%, colour variation would be hard to detect for naked eye. While IIT Madras too demonstrated that the intensity of light can be changed, the weakness was that it could be understood by a person looking at it.

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