Hacking and Computer Forensics Competition

Last Updated : Friday, 26-Apr-2002 17:04:05 HKT

The competition will start on 10^th June 2002 and will be last for two weeks. Participants who want to enter this competition need to post the following flag on their host front web page.

(Note. This host posting this web page and this pirate flag is NOT for competition. Hence, DO NOT hack this host)

This flag indicates that the host is ready for the competition and welcomes other participants to hack in. The owner of this host may also hack into other hosts that post this flag. All participants can ONLY hack into the hosts that are ready for the competition. That is the owner of host has posted the pirate flag on his/her web page. If participants try to hack into a host that is not ready for the competition, they will be disqualified in this competition and may be liable to department disciplinary action.

For those who have not finished the assignments in workshop, they can still continue their assignments during the competition. These people can also join the competition if they want to.

Each participant in this competition will try their best to break into other competitor hosts or set up a honey pot at their hosts to trap a hacker and then perform the computer forensics analysis. The winner will be the ones who

can hack into a system and can control it without being discovered
or
can trap the hacker and can trace every activity of the hacker by computer forensics techniques

Social Engineering techniques are allowed in the competition. However, they should not over 50% of the total efforts that they used to break into a host.

A small gift and a certificate will be presented to the winner. In return, the winner will give a brief presentation of how they hack into a system or trap a hacker during computer forensics analysis.