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Moronic Hacking Contest Ends In Free-For-All

Posted by chrisd on from the stupid-marketing-tricks-end-badly dept.

atomgiant writes "ZDNet is running an interesting article about the KDWorks hacking contest that has gone bad, or good, depending on your perspective. Entertaining read in any event." I think that Bruce Schneier has said it best on the value of contests such as this one. That the registration server was compromised I think is a telling comment on the value of whole site security.

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  1. Alright! by reaper20 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "And you have to ask yourself who will have a Web server running with this small amount of services activated? Nobody."

    Looks like my paranoia is beginning to pay off. Either that, or they were expecting the typical default IIS install.