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Contestants unhappy with Avecho response

ZDNet UK readers have complained that Avecho has not replied to their requests to participate in the company's £10,000 competition to try and defeat its virus software Read more

1 October, 2004 by Dan Ilet

OS X hacking challenge called off

The University of Wisconsin did not take kindly to a systems engineer using its network for a public Mac security test Read more

9 March, 2006 by Joris Evers

Avecho tempts fate with £10,000 hacking challenge

Come and have a go - if you think you're hard enough. A small antivirus firm is offering £10,000 to anyone who can break its product Read more

27 September, 2004 by Dan Ilet

...35,000 hacking challenge cracked

Hackers crack challenge within 24 hours, and Solaris gets the blame Read more

23 April, 2001 by Will Knight

Security conference hacked before doors open

A group of four Polish hackers has won $50,000 in a hacking challenge at InfoSecurity 2001 at London's Olympia - a day before the... Read more

23 April, 2001 by Ron Coates

Mac hacking competition winner mocks Apple security

...is "easy pickings", according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an... Read more

7 March, 2006 by Munir Kotadia

Lindows to open up Web authoring

...appeal to novice PC users. Robertson funded a $200,000 (£117,595) hacking challenge aimed at Microsoft's Xbox and will go to court later... Read more

31 October, 2003 by David Becker

Lindows offers free PCs to antitrust victims

...intended to appeal to novice PC users. Robertson funded a $200,000 hacking challenge aimed at Microsoft's Xbox and will go to court later... Read more

18 September, 2003 by David Becker

Stepping up to a giant

After Vivendi Universal bought his digital music company, MP3.com, for $350m two years ago, Michael Robertson could have retired and never looked back. Instead, the outspoken entrepreneur decided upon a second career that offered a tad more adventure: he decided to take on Microsoft Read more

6 August, 2003 by David Becker

Group cracking Xbox 'for the public good'

...run homemade Linux software on an unmodified Xbox, satisfying a $100,000 hacking challenge funded by Michael Robertson, chief executive of Linux software company Lindows... Read more

15 January, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

Group ditches bid to crack Xbox code

...run homemade Linux software on an unmodified Xbox, satisfying a $100,000 hacking challenge funded by Michael Robertson, chief executive of Linux software company Lindows... Read more

8 January, 2003 by David Becker

Copy-protected CD hacked--or is it?

Pride before a fall. Hackers appear to have got there first Read more

16 May, 2001 by Gwendolyn Mariano

News Roundup: Infosec 2001 unfolds

...blamed when the official guidelines are still eight months away? £35,000 hacking challenge crackedMon, 23 Apr Hackers crack challenge within 24 hours, and Solaris... Read more

25 April, 2001 by Will Knight

SDMI denies broken technologies

...open source and Linux communities, the firm collecting submissions to the SDMI Hacking Challenge turned over 447 potential breaches on 11 October, three days after... Read more

17 October, 2000 by Robert Lemos

SDMI hack popular despite Linux boycott

...community boycott doesn't seem to be putting a chill on a hacking challenge sponsored by the music industry. Leonardo Chiariglione, executive director of the... Read more

19 September, 2000 by Lisa M Bowman

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