Hack For Charity!
Our second cyber hacking challenge from Offensive Security is on it’s way. Registration to “How Strong is your Fu – For Charity” has begun! Offsec has teamed up with the crew at Hackers For Charity and the world’s premier Hacker Con – BlackHat, to provide another amazing Cyber Hacking Challenge with a whole new level of pain. Our goal is to raise $5000 for HFC as well as provide a world class cyber hacking event. The prizes? 1st place gets a BlackHat Vegas Conference Ticket (no travel included) , 2nd place gets a CTP Online Course from Offensive Security. Wowz!
Unlike our previous challenge, seats to this tournament will be limited, and require a registration fee of 49.00 $US. All proceeds from this event go to the HFC, and their efforts in East Africa.
What to expect?
The event will take place on June 19th, 2010 and will last for 48 hours. Since this contest is not for all the public, we have sent the n00b filter to a retirement facility in the deep south and set up a new level of challenge for you. Contestants will have to combat with hardened web applications, fuzz unknown protocols and programs and write custom exploits. This is just scratching the surface of what you will face to win the awesome prizes!
The Registration Process
Once payment is approved, you will receive a confirmation mail from PayPal and your registration will be complete. On the 18th of June, you will receive a VPN connectivity pack to our Tournament servers by email. On June 19, our blog will announce the beginning of the tournament (around 14:00 GMT), and all hell will break loose.
Please note that the connectivity packs will be sent to your PAYPAL email address (the one used by your PayPal account).
I approve the HFC project, but… I am from Serbia, and here, the fee of 50$ is way too much for something like hacking tournament. Maybe you should take in concern the fact that you will drastically limit number of participants because of money.
I sincerely hope that in the future will be more such events that will provide a chance to everyone participate.
All the best,
SETI_explorer
Yes, there will – but this event is for Charity. The whole purpose is to raise money.
50$ USD is the same as an expensive computer game, or 1 – 1½ BlueRay movie where I come from (Scandinavia). I’d say that it is affordable to pay, if you think about the price you can win too.
Excellent.. This should be a blast
I don’t really see what the problem is. 49$ is a reasonable price for this kind of event, plus it goes to charity.
My question is if we are unable to go to Black Hat in Vegas, is there some alternative like to choose a course or something ? Because my business is very important and have some planned things these days but we’ll see…
I hope to see you guys soon.
Yes, the first prize winner can exchange the BH ticket for any Offsec online course!
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