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Korean firm offers $100,000 in hacking competition

...Korean company is offering $100,000 (£70,000) in a 48-hour hacking competition, to be run this week. Korea Digital Works (KDWorks) will launch... Read more

15 April, 2002 by Matt Loney

When hacking competitions go wrong

What do you do when you enter a hacking competition only to discover that the target server is running a cut... Read more

31 May, 2002 by Matt Loney

Lindows chief funds Xbox hack

Michael Robertson acknowledges that he was the anonymous donor of £125,000 in prize money in a contest to translate the Linux operating system to Microsoft's game console Read more

3 January, 2003 by David Becker

Fresh Mac hacking competition launched

After a privilege escalation vulnerability brought the previous competition to an abrupt and early finish, a harder one has been set up Read more

8 March, 2006 by Joris Evers

Mac hacking competition winner mocks Apple security

It took the winner of the 'rm-my-mac' competition 30 minutes to gain root control of a Mac Mini using an unpatched OSX exploit Read more

7 March, 2006 by Munir Kotadia

Avecho delays £10,000 hacking competition

The company says that it needs a third-party adjudicator before its £10,000 security challenge can go ahead Read more

4 October, 2004 by Dan Ilet

No justification for weekend hacking competition

"To invite people to break in to the place of residence of somebody's website is absolutely outrageous" Read more

3 July, 2003 by silicon.com staff

£35,000 for hackers to crack Web server

...Ollmann, is most likely to come from new vulnerabilities appearing during the hacking competition. Take me to Hackers Take me to ZDNet Enterprise Have your... Read more

19 April, 2001 by Will Knight

Vista, Leopard and Linux to compete in hack contest

...MacBook. The vulnerability was subsequently found to also affect Windows platforms. The hacking competition at CanSecWest 2008 will pit the Linux, Leopard OS X and... Read more

7 February, 2008 by Tom Espiner
Yahoo India hosts mashup event

Yahoo India hosts mashup event

...Asia. Two hundred developers were invited to a non-stop, 24-hour hacking competition designed to create new mashups based on Yahoo's APIs, and... Read more

15 October, 2007 by Adrian Bridgwater

Avecho tempts fate with £10,000 hacking challenge

...suffered embarrassment in 2002, when suspicion arose over the running of its hacking competition. The firm had offered $100,000 to anyone who could break... Read more

27 September, 2004 by Dan Ilet

Security flaw threatens Cisco Web site

...efforts in detection and elimination of the security problem. The recently held hacking competition, OpenHack IV, dished out $500 (£320) to a single entrant, Jeremy... Read more

20 December, 2002 by Patrick Gray

News Roundup: Infosec 2001 unfolds

...35,000 for hackers to crack Web serverThu, 19 Apr A live hacking competition that begins tomorrow in London is intended to publicise the UK... Read more

25 April, 2001 by Will Knight

Security flaw threatens Cisco website

...efforts in detection and elimination of the security problem. The recently held hacking competition, OpenHack IV, dished out $500 (£320) to a single entrant, Jeremy... Read more

20 December, 2002 by CNET Networks

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