nydood
April 16th, 2002, 08:56 AM
http://www.msnbc.com/news/738956.asp?0si=-
April 15 — A Korean company is offering $100,000 in a 48-hour hacking competition, to be run this week. Korea Digital Works (KDWorks) will launch the competition, which will involve gaining root access to a server, on April 16 at 11 a.m. Korean Standard Time.
THE COMPETITION is aimed at demonstrating the resilience of KDWorks’ World OK Security (WOKS) solution, according to Justin Kim, an attorney with U.S.-based Mike Choi International Consulting, who is helping to promote the event.
“The company is a small enterprise but their product is outstanding,” said Kim. “We found the company is not internationally recognized, so we decided to run the competition.”
To enter the competition, participants first have to register on a Web site set up by KDWorks. Alongside their name and e-mail address, participants also have to leave an ID number, such as a passport number or national insurance number, which KDWorks will use to verify the identity of prizewinners. Despite the fact that to win the competition, a hacker must leave their name (which can be a nickname) alongside the ID number on a Web page of the site, Kim brushed aside any concerns over privacy issues.
“Nobody’s name will be revealed against their wishes,” said Kim. “If people just want their nickname used, that is fine.”
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There are rules to the competition: For instance, participants must not shut down the system; they should not shut down services that are being run by the system or do anything that could inconvenience other participants; and they must not overload the system. The full list of rules can be found at the www.woksdome.org site.
Early Monday morning, Pacific time, the site could not be reached.
Any good security experts can get cracking on this, waise lagta hai.... koi pehle se hi chuna lagakar chala gaya
April 15 — A Korean company is offering $100,000 in a 48-hour hacking competition, to be run this week. Korea Digital Works (KDWorks) will launch the competition, which will involve gaining root access to a server, on April 16 at 11 a.m. Korean Standard Time.
THE COMPETITION is aimed at demonstrating the resilience of KDWorks’ World OK Security (WOKS) solution, according to Justin Kim, an attorney with U.S.-based Mike Choi International Consulting, who is helping to promote the event.
“The company is a small enterprise but their product is outstanding,” said Kim. “We found the company is not internationally recognized, so we decided to run the competition.”
To enter the competition, participants first have to register on a Web site set up by KDWorks. Alongside their name and e-mail address, participants also have to leave an ID number, such as a passport number or national insurance number, which KDWorks will use to verify the identity of prizewinners. Despite the fact that to win the competition, a hacker must leave their name (which can be a nickname) alongside the ID number on a Web page of the site, Kim brushed aside any concerns over privacy issues.
“Nobody’s name will be revealed against their wishes,” said Kim. “If people just want their nickname used, that is fine.”
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There are rules to the competition: For instance, participants must not shut down the system; they should not shut down services that are being run by the system or do anything that could inconvenience other participants; and they must not overload the system. The full list of rules can be found at the www.woksdome.org site.
Early Monday morning, Pacific time, the site could not be reached.
Any good security experts can get cracking on this, waise lagta hai.... koi pehle se hi chuna lagakar chala gaya