The Student vs Hacker Security Showdown Rematch

monkeyboy44 writes "Following up on last year's entertaining hacker vs. student showdown, InformIT.com once again covered the annual Mid-Atlantic Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition where college students are put to the test. During the three day event, small teams from eight of the areas colleges are handed insecure networks that they have to lockdown and keep running — all while a team of hackers attempt to gain access any way they can. To keep it interesting, the teams also had to perform various tasks, such as program web applications, install IDS systems and more — and if hacked, the US Secret Service was on hand to determine if there was enough data to start an investigation. Once again, the hackers dominated — but not without a few surprises."

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Re:Exercise in Futility

[mastershake_phd]

Psh, just disconnect from the wan problem solved.

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[Anonymous Coward]

US Secret Service was on hand to determine if their was enough data to start an investigation. Please read before you post.

Re:0-day

[cyberbob2351]

Aw hell, yeah they are :P