Security firm Veracode sponsors $15K hacking competition for universities

The application security testing firm Veracode announced Thursday it’s sponsoring an ethical hacking competition featuring teams from eight U.S. and U.K. universities and will award $15,000 in prizes.

Running from March 15 to 26, the Hacker Games — an apparent nod to the teenage battle royale series “The Hunger Games” — will pit groups of student coders against each other as they attempt to find vulnerabilities in real pieces of software. The contest, the company said, will…

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