Hacking tournament updates: When Offensive Security asked the community if they wanted to hack something (legally), the response that came back was overwhelming. Hundreds of penetration testers and information security specialists poured in from all over the world. And so begins “How strong is your Fu ?”.The team at Offsec gathered into a dark room in cold and damp basement and after shocking each other with a car battery for a few hours, we began to develop some of the most evil machines we have ever built. We have given birth to a hack challenge that will release the full fury of the Offsec Lab Masters upon the world. You have been warned.
With over 1000 registrations, we really didn’t want to deny anyone the pain pleasure of our challenge. We tripled up our lab space, and changed our concepts so that all registrants would be able to participate.
What to Expect:
- The challenge will be built of two Phases, appropriately called “Phase 1″ and “Phase 2″. Phase one is also humorously called “The noob filter”, as only the first 100 people who hack their way past this machine will pass on to “Phase 2″. Please do not be offended by the choice of machine names, it’s all done in humor. Once “Phase 1″ is hacked by an attendee, they will find instructions on how to proceed to “Phase 2″.
- “Phase 2″ will involve VPN access to an internal lab, with several additional machines which are trembling with anticipation for the taunting session hacking tournament.
- All registered attendees will get an email on the 8th of May, around 14:00 GMT (that means around 10am EST) with further instructions, attack adresses, etc. We have around 120 people who have not verified their registration – those will not be included in the list. If you did not get a confirmation email, re-register, or contact Offsec Staff (figure out how).
The Hacking tournament machines will be implemented in our PWB labs once the tournament is over. As we refresh our lab machines every so often… perhaps this could turn into a tradition ? We are really looking forward to the hacking tournament, with some really slick victim machines set up…. we will be waiting for your pings.
Are you still planning on running both phases over a weekend that favors people with no women in their lives?
I’ve signed up, confirmed but haven’t received any information about the challenge after that. Nothing in the inbox/spam folder. Is there any problem?
There is no email at inbox & spam folder!
I confirmed the register, but still I don’t receive any thing!
please resend the email to my email.
thanks.
Thanks, I receive it now :)
Looks like the contest started. Checked all SPAM engines, and no email from OffSec other than the registration confirmation. Hopefully something shows up any minute.
I have the same problem. Nothing in the inbox/spam
All those who did not get emails – join #HSIYF on freenode and ping muts.
We will not reply to emails on the comment area space, if you need your email sent, join the IRC Channel at #HSIYF, freenode.
We will not reply to emails on the comment area space, if you need your email re-sent, join the IRC Channel at #HSIYF, freenode.
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