{"id":989,"date":"2009-02-23T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-new.brucon.org\/2018\/2009\/02\/23\/calling-volunteers-for-our-hacking-challenge\/"},"modified":"2009-02-23T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:52:00","slug":"calling-volunteers-for-our-hacking-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.brucon.org\/2023\/2009\/02\/23\/calling-volunteers-for-our-hacking-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling volunteers for our hacking challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_hKfJbfbBxMU\/SaMQKXJkU3I\/AAAAAAAAClk\/pQK6RkNIsks\/s1600-h\/21708922_328b826e5c_o.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor: pointer;width: 320px;height: 224px\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_hKfJbfbBxMU\/SaMQKXJkU3I\/AAAAAAAAClk\/pQK6RkNIsks\/s400\/21708922_328b826e5c_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306102556171457394\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the conference, a Hacker&#8217;s Challenge will be running. The main organizer of the challenge is looking for skilled people who can help him set up stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The main tasks would be to &#8220;invent&#8221; easy-to-difficult challenges on different domains (for example):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hacker Trivia<\/li>\n<li>Malware analysis<\/li>\n<li>Web Application Hacking<\/li>\n<li>Forensics<\/li>\n<li>etc&#8230;..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a temporary list and is not exhaustive and might be subject to change. The challenge is meant to learn participants some practical skills in the different domains of security. Wether you&#8217;re a novice network admin or a l33t packet ninja, the purpose is to learn some skills that might be useful by way of a fun and hands on contest.<\/p>\n<p>So the purpose of this &#8216;hacking challenge&#8217; is *<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">not<\/span>* to learn<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how to hack into your girlfriend&#8217;s hotmail account<\/li>\n<li>hack into the pentagon network in search for UFO evidence<\/li>\n<li>write banking trojans and become a member of the RBN<\/li>\n<li>become a l33t haxxor to impress your friends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope that this explanation is crystal clear to some of the people that asked for more explanation about the &#8220;hacking&#8221; challenges of our conference.<\/p>\n<p>Drop us an <a href=\"http:\/\/address-protector.com\/WyQDqeTKQiTVBpyH4_cZYJPEEuLnt66jAZ8q659rJMo\">email<\/a> or reply on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=1777141\">Linkedin<\/a> if interested. For those who are not volunteering, start reading up on all those books or ebooks lying around, the challenge will feature a very cool price !!!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:85%\">(Photo under creative commons from  <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/spiff_27\/\" title=\"Link to Spiff_27's photostream\"><b>Spiff_27<\/b><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the conference, a Hacker&#8217;s Challenge will be running. The main organizer of the challenge is looking for skilled people who can help him set up stuff. The main tasks would be to &#8220;invent&#8221; easy-to-difficult challenges on different domains (for example): Hacker Trivia Malware analysis Web Application Hacking Forensics etc&#8230;.. This is a temporary list and is not exhaustive and might be subject to change. The challenge is meant to learn participants some practical skills&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hacking-challenge","7":"category-prizes"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.brucon.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.brucon.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.brucon.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.brucon.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.brucon.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.brucon.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.brucon.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.brucon.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.brucon.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}