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Information Technology News Three-way hack fest | Three-way hack fest |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 28 March 2008 | |
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How does the competition work? "You hack it, you get to keep it." The task set is to extract a specific file from the chosen system via the Ethernet port (RF attacks are acceptable "by special arrangement"). Each system is patched and in a "typical" configuration, and successful completion will require the execution of code on the laptop. Contestants have just 30 minutes to do the deed, and they have no physical access to the targets. All three systems survived the first day of the competition, which limited attacks to "Remotely exploitable Pre-Auth vulnerabilities which require no user interaction." That meant TippingPoint's $20,000 cash prize was safe. The second day widened the scope to "any default installed client-side applications which can be exploited by following a link through email, vendor supplied IM client or visiting a malicious website." CONTINUED |
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