Network Computing Editor Wins RSA Hacking Contest

richkarpi writes "Network Computing's security editor won the recent RSA Interactive Testing Challenge. He has up a blow-by-blow description of the events at their site: 'The most important factor in the contest besides basic web exploitation skills (cross site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, cross site request forgeries (CSRF), etc.) was speed ... I squeaked out a win in the tie-breaking challenge the first day with only a few seconds to spare as my opponent was right behind in the hunt to combine three injectable fields into one long javascript function.'"

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Re:Meh

[numatrix]

Actually, last year HD Moore did exactly that -- cracked the vmware image using the metasploit framework and won that way. According to the conference organizers anyway.

Besides, I never claimed that I was a "real hacker". :-)

(yes, that's me. Holy crap, I've been slashdotted!)