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Avecho Tempts Fate With £10,000 Hacking Challenge
News Avecho has thrown down the gauntlet by offering £10,000 to anyone who can sneak a virus past its GlassWall product, and has even opened the challenge to its developers. But the challenge awaits a third-party adjudicator.
[September 27, 2004, 13:10]
VMware Launches $200,000 Challenge For Virtual Appliances
News Virtualisation software supplier VMware announced the launch of the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge — a contest with $200,000 (£115,000) worth of prizes at stake — on Monday. The Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge is open to participants...
[February 27, 2006, 16:00]
£35,000 Hacking Challenge Cracked
News However, Randy Sandone, president and chief executive of Argus Systems, denied that the decision to hold the hacker challenge was a mistake. We continue to believe that these hacking contests are providing a public service to the industry," said...
[April 23, 2001, 14:44]
News Burst: SDMI Tempts Hackers To $10,000 Challenge
News The record industry and its allies in the race to create impenetrable music delivery systems have issued a challenge: crack our code and we'll pay you $10,000 (£6,100). The gauntlet was thrown down by developers at the Secure Digital Music...
[September 11, 2000, 9:44]
Germans Launch $5,000 CeBIT Hacker Challenge
News Despite sounding similar, the hacker challenge is quite different to that faced by those trying to unravel the methods proposed by the Secure Digital Music Initiative for keeping track of copyright protected music over the Internet.
[March 22, 2001, 10:39]
£150,000 Crypto Cracking Challenge Launched
News Internet security firm RSA Security is challenging individuals to test the strength of its algorithms in its latest crypto Factoring Challenge, with a cash prize of nearly £150,00 at stake. Cryptography experts must determine the two prime numbers...
[July 24, 2001, 13:56]
Avecho Tempts Fate With £10,000 Hacking Challenge
Talkback As if there isnt enough shit flowing around the Internet already, do we really need an email company promoting and rewarding "clever" virus writing ? This type of irresponsible behaviour helps to ruin the Internet for everyone, including themselves.
[September 27, 2004, 20:47]
Avecho Tempts Fate With £10,000 Hacking Challenge
Talkback Well--Yes. How else would you test an anti-virus product? Code-n-Pray? Additionally, assuming their offer is an honest one, I have respect for the way they stick their noses out there.
[September 27, 2004, 22:28]
Contestants Unhappy With Avecho Response
News Disgruntled would-be contestants for antivirus firm Avecho's £10,000 challenge are saying that the company has failed to respond to emails asking to join the competition. I am starting to get the feeling that this Avecho £10,000 virus challenge was...
[October 1, 2004, 13:10]
56-bit Crypto Code Cracking Record Smashed
News RSA Laboratories sponsored the code cracking challenge that was launched on Monday with a prize of $10,000 (£6,134) for the winner. The record-breaking computer was specially built for the challenge by The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) at a...
[July 17, 1998, 11:11]
Distributed Computing Project Takes On Xbox Security
News The Neo Project was initially founded to develop distributed computing software to meet a challenge from RSA Security, which has offered a $10,000 prize for the first person to crack one of the main encryption keys used by the company's PC...
[January 7, 2003, 10:39]
Group Ditches Bid To Crack Xbox Code
News We cannot comment on anything that has happened in the last 24 hours; we can only say that we can no longer participate in the Xbox challenge," he said. The group's initial software release focused on a $10,000 challenge from computer security firm...
[January 7, 2003, 23:06]
Coin Manufacturer Distributes New Euro On Time Thanks To Its New Wireless Infrastructure
White Papers The transition from Lira to Euro in Italy presented the Italian government and its partners with an enormous challenge. Similarly, the Italian Post Office was facing a mammoth logistical challenge. Similarly, the Italian Post Office was facing a...
[October 4, 2003, 0:00]
Robot Meets Robot In 'Darpa City' Race
News Virginia Tech's team, VictorTango, won third prize and $500,000 (£240,000) in the Urban Grand Challenge on Saturday. It was part of Darpa's $3.5m (£1.6m) robot race, the Urban Grand Challenge. Stanford university's robot, Junior, was the first to...
[November 6, 2007, 10:51]
Mystery Game Lures Players With Cash
News Each installment will have a monthly challenge, with a $25,000 prize for the first player who solves it. The final challenge is to deduce the name, bank account number and other key data for one of the main characters.
[November 4, 2002, 10:54]
News Roundup: Infosec 2001 Unfolds
News Perhaps the most interesting story from the show, however, was the Hacker Challenge, cracked before the show even began. hacking challenge cracked Mon, 23 Apr Hackers crack challenge within 24 hours, and Solaris gets the blame for hackers to crack...
[April 25, 2001, 15:15]
Yahoo Gateway Blamed For Lost Customers
News Web Street claims Yahoo's investment challenge alienated potential customers, and that the brokerage received emails from would-be clients complaining about the challenge and noting that they would never open an account with Web Street.
[November 6, 1998, 9:16]
VMware Predicts A Virtualised World
News To increase development efforts in the virtual appliance space, the company also announced a contest in February for developers to vie for the prises totalling $200,000 in the challenge. This was a far cry from the days where Abacus faced a...
[March 8, 2006, 12:35]
Google Android Developers Push Location-based Apps
News In accordance with the recent interest around location-based services, a wave of such applications made it through to the first round of judging for Google's new mobile platform, in the Android Developer Challenge.
[May 19, 2008, 8:46]
SDMI Denies Broken Technologies
News The challenge took the form of six songs posted on the HackSDMI Web site. Despite a boycott by members of the open source and Linux communities, the firm collecting submissions to the SDMI Hacking Challenge turned over 447 potential breaches on 11...
[October 17, 2000, 9:45]
