In an arena at Iowa State University, two dozen students leaned over laptops on tables between green and red tractors. They came from across the country for the fourth annual CyberTractor Challenge.
“Today is the first day that we’ve actually started hacking. We’re still trying to play around with the systems, with the networks, with communicating with the machinery,” said Anish Nag, an undergraduate student majoring in cybersecurity engineering at ISU.
Nearby, the lights on a tractor blinked on and off…