IP: £35,000 hacking challenge cracked

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:41:15 -0700
> From: Jay Anantharaman <jna () nuance com>
> Organization: Nuance Communications
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Subject: £35,000 hacking challenge cracked
>
>
>  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010423/152/bmqfd.html
>
> A team of computer hackers has captured £35,000 for hacking into
> a computer system just twenty-four hours after the competition began.
>
> Argus Systems organised the competition -- to break into a Web server
> locked down using its security product called PitBull -- to promote its
> products and to coincide with the start of Infosec, the UK's premier
> computer security event.
>
> Undeniably, the stunt backfired and is an embarrassment for
> Argus Systems Group, as well for as security consultant firm Integralis
> and hardware vendor Fujitsu Siemens, which helped organise the stunt
> and have coordinated three similar competitions in the US and Germany
> without suffering setbacks.



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