Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday announced a host of initiatives during a summit held at UNLV to strengthen the state and national cybersecurity industry’s growing workforce, with a focus on young people entering the industry.

UNLV has received funding from the federal government for cybersecurity education, enabling it to bring on fifty students per year as paid interns at its Free Cyber Clinic. Through this experience, students will get hands-on cyber experience from small business clients, training for the Security+ and Certified Ethical Hacker certifications plus exam fee support, and support for attending cybersecurity conferences such as DEFCON.

Nevada joins the nation in a shortfall of professionals within the cyber workforce, which the White House is taking measures to reverse as cyber threats evolve.

UNLV is working to inspire the valley's next generation of cybersecurity professionals. Local high school students had the opportunity to test their skills at the university's annual GenCyber Camp.

In a dark room inside UNLV’s Science and Engineering Building Friday morning, high schoolers were trying to escape. But, laughs and excited screams were heard on the other side of the door. UNLV students and faculty designed and built an escape room to teach them the necessity of cybersecurity.

Swatting is a form of domestic terrorism that is sometimes deadly and has become more widespread in the US, according to a March report from Hal Berghel, a computer science professor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Modeled on legal and health clinics, campus units that give students hands-on training while providing a community service gain university, corporate and government backing.

All stories start somewhere – even the incomprehensibly vast expanse above us has a beginning. Scientists have long studied the cosmos, searching for answers to the “how’s” and “why’s” of life, and that effort continues to this day.

There are, at this moment, 187 clinical trials for the neurodegenerative disease underway, the highest ever on record, according to a new report from the Alzheimer’s Association (AA). The research was published in the association’s journal, Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical Interventions, last week, featuring data scraped from the ClinicalTrials.gov database.

Cyberattacks on companies and people are at an all-time high. At the moment, there are just not enough cybersecurity professionals in the country to help protect the world wide web.

When Elana Graham started selling cyber-security software to small companies five years ago, business was relatively slow. Now demand is booming, driven by a rapid expansion in remote work that has left small firms vulnerable to attack.

Alicia*, an art student in her late teens, started making money through her blog late last year. The only problem? She didn’t know what to do with it.