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False Start For Cyber Security Challenge UK

Posted by timothy on from the wee-oopsie dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Netcraft writes about an ironic 'false start' for the Cyber Security Challenge UK website. The new venture touts itself as 'a programme of national challenges, designed by experts, to identify and nurture the UK's future cyber security workforce.' Unfortunately, the website appears to be vulnerable to a basic cross-site scripting vulnerability which was easily found by some Twitter users."

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  1. UK by Weezul · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I don't see how this is a "false start", given they haven't even announced targets yet. I'd view this as just the typical competence level with the UK applies across the board, finance, engineering, cooking, etc. You know, there is a reason the UK is about the only country to ever feel threatened enough about their educational standing that they rigged a world wide survey of universities, well China might do this internally.

    citation : The Times of Higher Education observed that U.K. universities had more foreign students and faculty because people speak English all over the world, but the U.S. universities are god awful expensive, and well no foreigners would bother seeking an education in India or Australia. So they created a nice little "World University Ranking" that places almost half the value on the presence of foreign students and faculty while largely ignoring usual measures like student and faculty achievements. For example, France's Ecole Polytechnique was ranked around the level of the University of Manchester for Engineering, while actually even Oxford doesn't hold a candle to EP in engineering.

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    The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. -- Bertrand Russell
    1. Re:UK by Weezul · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Oops, yes, I'd forgotten exactly what they did wrong, but nevertheless everyone outside the UK basically agrees these rankings are self aggrandizing bullshit.

      A more honest ranking was done by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In fact, the Shanghai rankings are still extremely based towards English speaking universities, although less blatantly biased towards British institutions. In all seriousness, the University of Sheffield simply does not belong in the top 100 for any world university rankings. lol

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      The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. -- Bertrand Russell
  2. YOU FaIL IT!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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