[olug] hacking "contest" RE: Re: [olug] Security

Timothy G. O'Brien IrishMASMS at netscape.net
Sat Jan 5 02:49:04 UTC 2002


The local "SANSUG" conducted a hacking lab a few months ago, which was verry sucessfull and a learning experience for all concerned.

David Walker <linux_user at grax.com> wrote:

>I've been considering hosting a hacking contest later this year.  (attacking 
>and defending).  How many people would be interested in something like this?
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>On Friday 04 January 2002 02:52 pm, you wrote:
>> We ran a little hacking session in the Scott dorms to poke holes in our two
>> machine's security to see what could be done and realzed the exploits that
>> could have been used which backed-up the fact of how important security is
>> because without it our internal networks would have been compromised.
>> luckily it was a friendly attack from friends on my side and on the other
>> end....otherwise i don't know what may have happened.
>>
>> thanks,
>> nate Rotschafer
>>
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