When Hacking Competitions Go Wrong
News What do you do when you enter a hacking competition only to discover that the target server is running a cut-down operating system running with almost all services switched off so that it does not resemble a "real-world situation"?
[May 31, 2002, 17:08]
Korean Firm Offers $100,000 In Hacking Competition
News A Korean company is offering $100,000 (£70,000) in a 48-hour hacking competition, to be run this week. If there is no outright winner, the judges may award five prizes of $10,000 to "outstanding competitors" based on the methodology and level of...
[April 15, 2002, 10:35]
£35,000 Hacking Challenge Cracked
News The hacking group -- Last Stage of Delirium (LSD) -- broke into the target server on Saturday, just a day after the competition began, and informed Argus Systems. A team of computer hackers has captured £35,000 for hacking into a computer system...
[April 23, 2001, 14:44]
£35,000 For Hackers To Crack Web Server
News This is the last in a series of four hacking stunts. The real risk, according to Ollmann, is most likely to come from new vulnerabilities appearing during the hacking competition. Computer hackers from around the world are being invited to break...
[April 19, 2001, 14:39]
News Roundup: Infosec 2001 Unfolds
News Thu, 19 Apr A live hacking competition that begins tomorrow in London is intended to publicise the UK's lackadaisical attitude to security This year's highlights have included keynotes on the latest hacking techniques, ways to protect corporate...
[April 25, 2001, 15:15]
Avecho Tempts Fate With £10,000 Hacking Challenge
News In the past, many firms have crashed and burned with hacker challenges - in 2001, Argus Systems failed to pay a Polish ethical hacking group called 'The Last Stage of Delerium' prize money worth £35,000 for cracking its Pit Bull server.
[September 27, 2004, 13:10]
Teams Compete To Hack And Defend
News The annual contest pits eight teams at the DefCon conference against each other in a test of network defense and hacking skills. Alan Harper, a security engineer with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), thought that competitions like...
[August 5, 2003, 14:49]
Lovesick Hacker Hits Microsoft
News DeLong, curator of the attrition.org Web defacement archive, said research of other hacking mirror sites -- which use a computer's "screen grab" function to document vandalized Web sites -- indicates that this is the first time Microsoft has been...
[October 27, 1999, 8:30]
Amazon Greece Fight Heats Up
News Greg Lloyd Smith, the Greece-based businessman sued by Amazon.com for an allegedly "thinly veiled shakedown" over his Amazon.gr and Amazon.com.gr sites, says he is planning a countersuit against the e-retailing giant for, among other things...
[August 20, 1999, 8:37]
Trade Groups Steal Antitrust Show
News Instead, it was a document quietly submitted to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson by two computer industry trade groups late Friday, a brief that proposes hacking the company into three distinct parts : an operating system company, an applications...
[May 25, 2000, 8:36]
Mac Hacking Competition Winner Mocks Apple Security
News Gaining root access to a Mac 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 unpublished security vulnerability.
[March 7, 2006, 9:00]
Mac Hacking Competition Winner Mocks Apple Security
Talkback The kid has a point, I would seriously like to see any of you gaining root access with or without a user account on a HP-UX server.
[March 7, 2006, 16:06]
Mac Hacking Competition Winner Mocks Apple Security
Talkback That is not a test of server security. A new test has been started that challenges hackers to actually break into a server running OSX. How long would it take a hacker to gain access of any operating system if they were given client access?
[March 7, 2006, 15:33]
Glaser: Harmony Is The Way Forward
News We had created the universal server that streams all the major formats including the Windows Media formats. RealNetworks chief executive Rob Glaser has survived longer than most in the Internet business, largely by pulling rabbits out of his hat...
[August 18, 2004, 11:30]
