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BlackOPS hacker competition
(old news - 03:03PM Saturday Aug 21 2004)
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In tech-savvy Singapore, 12 computer experts armed with laptops, modems, hard disk drives and sandwiches met on Friday for a seven-hour contest to find the best hacker. Divided into six two-man teams, the contestants participating in "BlackOPS: HackAttack Challenge 2004" have to defend their networks and servers from hacking while attacking other teams' systems, all entrants had to pass a preliminary competition. Teams were not allowed to use the Internet as a hacking tool, only computers and modems. Organizers had said they hoped the contest would help shed light on ways to prevent actual computer attacks.

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dk1983

join:2003-10-18
Boise, ID
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Nice..

Looks very interesting.. Ohhh did I see the word FREE on the website.. To bad I don't know how to do anything like that..

ViviTheMage
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Re: Nice..

said by dk1983 See Profile:
Looks very interesting.. Ohhh did I see the word FREE on the website.. To bad I don't know how to do anything like that..

that does look interesting...i wonder what they do, or how they actually do the hacking without the aid of the internet.
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dk1983

join:2003-10-18
Boise, ID
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·Qwest.net

Re: Nice..

Teams will be provided with a complete equipment setup designed to simulate operations in a real-world environment where they must defend their “organization’s” equipment and resources against attempted penetration and exploitation by other teams.

Each team will be required to penetrate, exploit, secure access and obtain privileged information from the other teams’ servers, for the purpose of corporate espionage.
THE BATTLEFIELD
You are an organization running:
o a public web server
o a public ftp server
o an internal filesharing server containing sensitive/confidential information plus a bonus clue.

You cannot allow these services to be down or disconnected or information to be stolen.You will need to engage in corporate espionage against other teams.
THE MISSIONS
o Defend your turf against the other teams.
o Exploit other teams' equipment/resources by all means necessary (subject to ground rules).
o Obtain confidential information (customer database information/files) from other teams.
o Bonus Objective! Assemble the clue-sentence from portions of a special file that each team has on their servers to find the bonus objective for bonus points!

c0

@verizon.ne

Re: Nice..

How do you find the best hacker when they formed teams?

J_Curiosity

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Is this Hacking been done using the local Intranet, or a cross over cable.

J_Curiosity

@12.153.x.x

Re: Nice..

does anybody have any information on how this connection to each others pc? if there are using the internet, is there any other type of connection beside Intranet, or a cross over cable, or are they just using some server. OOps, I remember now! from cisco class, we use some router, hubs, swithes to make connection, there was no internet. I can wrong. can some let me know, is there any other connection.
nl4jy

join:2002-05-02
Brooklyn, NY

Re: Nice..

they use dialup modems, port scanning, DOS attacks, brute force, anything the real world is using.

Remember, they cannot shutdown the system, so it must be on all times. 2 men team, 1 primarily will be for defense while the other offense, sharing info to aid each other. They could also do simu attack and defense when needed.

They are also in a intranet where it looks like the internet xept only servers these ppl can see are each others. Similar to the real world where web servers are available to anyone, file server is available to anyone, web/file server is connected to their own LAN.

This is pretty cool and it does apply to the real world scenerio, only a smaller scale.
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B777300

join:2002-01-02
Interesting stuff indeed

jose3030
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join:1999-08-17
Manassas, VA

Hmm

Interesting!
Alphy

join:2001-12-31
Troy, MI

Do share

I would love to hear what the winning team implemented for security

M4ge

join:2003-10-14
Magnolia, TX

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intranet posibly?

it makes sence that they are useing there own intranet. they have a series of servers and laptops set up on a big network. each pc is pass protected and such.

thoughts/ideas?
icertweak

join:2002-10-24
Yorkton, SK

Silly People!

Silly People! Don't you know hackers have Apple laptops that jack into super cool 3d worlds on the server whilst running away from the cyber defender bots!

Vig
Thread-safe since 1997
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join:2004-03-23
San Diego, CA

Re: Silly People!

Since I've been watching the Olympics this week, I figured they should have some "degree of difficulty" for the systems they're defending. Something like +100 bonus points for using an unpatched windows flavor as their OS....OTOH, that might be an unfair advantage if they just rigged it to crash every time something accessed it. Can't hack it if it keeps rebooting....

Dspairl
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join:2004-06-09
Norwich, CT

Was At Last Years

Well the last event was held in Tokyo, it was an interesting sight as I was part of a 4 man team trying to hack into some massive security stuff....they allow u the use of a 56k modem and tons of awesome laptops and stuff. Was rather fun. Came in 3rd overall
Desdinova

join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD

Re: Was At Last Years

I'd love to know systems well enough to play these kinds o'games. Sadly though, the only thing I can hack is firewood.

ctrip
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New Cumberland, PA
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Real ones aren't public

All these open public HackAttack challenges are fine. It serves a function and tickles the publics fancy.

But the real Black Hats aren't competing in these silly public displays of scrip kiddiedom. The real competition takes place in secrecy and obscure locations. These are by nature, secretive and exclusive. You cannot just show up. You need an invitation. The last one that I attended was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2002. There was even a teenager working for the NSA that attended that one.

The preceding has entirely been a load of BS
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