CodeHS Cybersecurity Insider: Cybersecurity Challenge, Scholarships, Cybersecurity News, and more!

Apr 07, 2025

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🔥 Cybersecurity Challenge

Can you decrypt the ciphertext below?

✋📬🐠🐢 🖖📁📉✈ ✋🐢 ✋✋📬🖖 🌊📪📬🖖📄📤📑

Last Insider’s Challenge Answer

Hiding a message within a message is called steganography. Can you find the hidden message in the paragraph below?

Answer: Read only the first word on each line. “Never Going to Give you Up never going to let you down”

📚 Steganography Project Highlight

Check out this fun, cybersecurity project in our Project Catalog!

In this Capture the Flag project, students will dive into the world of developer tools, the secret weapons of web designers and programmers! Students will explore the code behind websites, participate in a capture-the-flag style game, and learn how to use developer tools to inspect and manipulate websites.

🗞️ Cybersecurity in the News

A cyberattack hit the Fort Bend County library system — but the real drama? It took weeks before anyone was told. Now there’s a full-blown criminal investigation, and students just trying to print homework are caught in the chaos.

Class Discussion Questions

Why might the library have waited weeks to report the cyberattack?
What would you do first if you found out your system was hacked?
Are public places like libraries doing enough to protect our data? Why or why not?

💸 Student Scholarship Application

Calling All High School Seniors - Now Accepting Applications!

CodeHS is proud to invite all eligible students to apply for the CodeHS Scholarship! We will award $1,000 grants to 10 students who plan to study computer science and related fields at the post-secondary level.

Review the scholarship eligibility requirements and learn how your students can apply today. All applications are due by May 28th, 2025 @ 11:59 PM CT.

🏆 Apply to Become a CodesHS Certified Educator

Become a CodeHS Certified Educator and showcase your hard work in the classroom. You’ll be recognized on the CodeHS website and across our social media channels. You'll also receive a certificate, exclusive CodeHS swag, and opportunities to connect with other computer science teachers at meetups throughout the year. Applications close on April 30th.

🌟 NEW FEATURE: Parsons Problems

In the Practice App, parsons problems are now available for students to work through. Teachers can also add them as extra practice in their courses. Parsons problems are coding exercises where students are given scrambled code snippets that they must reorder and, in some cases, properly indent to form a functional program or code segment. You can identify parsons problems in the Practice App by the icon with a down arrow next to four lines, located to the left of the problem name.