 Real Life: Iowa Decker Training Competition, I'd never heard of this sort of thing... |
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 May 19 2006, 04:01 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 4-December 02 From: Ankeny, IA Member No.: 3,684  |
Up all night fighting off hackers
AMES, Iowa -- These high schoolers will have permission to stay up all night playing a computer game. Students from 10 Iowa high schools will spend 15 hours playing the security crew for a fictional dot-com startup company in Metropolitan, Iowa. The students' job will be to design a computer network that will keep hackers from attacking the company and its work creating databases. And then they'll have to stay up all night defending that network from a team of Iowa State University students posing as hackers. It's all part of Iowa's first High School Cyber Defense Competition. The competition starts at 7 p.m. Friday, May 19, at Iowa State's Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment. The electronic action ends at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 20. The event is free and open to the public. Full story: Iowa State University News Article |
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May 19 2006, 06:08 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
heh, there will be a lot of bruised egos on both sides before that one is over.
still, unless the database have to have a online pressence, i would just pull the ethernet cable out of the box and leave it at that :P |
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May 19 2006, 10:11 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 7-February 03 Member No.: 4,025 |
hmm... so how much thinking outside the box do the rules cover? Could the "hackers" send some thugs to intimidate a "security" guy into cooperating. Maybe they could storm the building in ski-masks and paint guns, tie up the kids and hack at will... :D
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May 20 2006, 12:43 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,405 Joined: 23-February 04 From: Honolulu, HI Member No.: 6,099 |
Outside the box would be fun.
"Hey, is that a chopper I hear?" and "Was that gunfire?" Or in true SR style, this 'test run' actually ends up masking a real run aimed at the site. |
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May 20 2006, 05:10 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 13 Joined: 13-May 06 From: Des Moines, IA Member No.: 8,554 |
Wow, wish I knew about this. Sounds fun!
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