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False Start For Cyber Security Challenge UK

Posted by timothy on from the wee-oopsie dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Netcraft writes about an ironic 'false start' for the Cyber Security Challenge UK website. The new venture touts itself as 'a programme of national challenges, designed by experts, to identify and nurture the UK's future cyber security workforce.' Unfortunately, the website appears to be vulnerable to a basic cross-site scripting vulnerability which was easily found by some Twitter users."

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  1. Sigh by bbqsrc · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of the four paragraphs in the article, there's one entirely about how the toolbar run by the website will protect you from XSS, and hardly goes into detail about anything amusing at all. It's not even that good of an XSS hole... simply boring.

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    1. Re:Sigh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Netcraft is dying! Someone commenting about it as if they didn't know it confirms it!

  2. Re:nice honeypot by dwarfsoft · · Score: 1

    Or Vinegarpot?

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  3. Donkeys seeking to recruit lions by Rogerborg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, I guess if they had competent IT people, they wouldn't be looking to hire any. Seems pretty axiomatic.

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    1. Re:Donkeys seeking to recruit lions by BeerCat · · Score: 1

      Perhaps the website is the first part of the recruitment process -
      "if you can hack this, then we could offer you a job as a white hat" Or something like

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  4. Re:First Post! by Cryacin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Funny how an anti-hacking site is breached by a bunch of twits.

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  5. Re:UK by jcupitt65 · · Score: 4, Informative

    So they created a nice little "World University Ranking" that places almost half the value on the presence of foreign students and faculty while largely ignoring usual measures like student and faculty achievements.

    No they didn't, please check your facts.

    The ranking weights are:

    • Peer Review Score (40%)
    • Recruiter Review (10%)
    • International Faculty Score (5%)
    • International Students Score (5%)
    • Faculty/Student Score (20%)
    • Citations/Faculty Score (20%).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Higher_Education_World_University_Rankings

    You're right that the THES ranking has been criticised. You'll note that they will be using a new methodology for this autumn's table.

  6. There are none by h00manist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are no competent people, no secure or quality products, and no certain outcomes. Get over it and get to work trying to get whatever result you want, or to drinking beer. Either way, everything will end up somewhere. Try not to do it with guns, and nobody will die, that way you can try again.

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  7. Re:UK by jcupitt65 · · Score: 1

    They don't have much credibility in the UK either, hehe. The university I work at is apparently in the world's top ten, which is rather o.O.

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