Positive Hack Days III Online Competitions

If, for some reason, you will not be able to visit the venue of Positive Hack Days on May 23 and 24, this doesn’t mean you should miss the opportunity to participate. Thanks to the competition program of the forum, anyone will have a chance to compete with contestants from all over the world during exciting online Positive Hack Days III challenges.

WAF Bypass at PHDays III

This competition is for enthusiasts and experts of web application security. The challenge organized by ICL company provides an opportunity to test oneself in exploiting vulnerable web applications protected by a Web Application Firewall.

Theory, Practice, and Minimum Ceremonies — PHDays III Program Published

The international forum on information security Positive Hack Days III will start in two days! Today you have a possibility to learn the final event program, which consists, as it was last year, of two parts — the conference and hacking contests.

Take Part in Positive Hack Days in Any Part of the World

As part of PHDays Everywhere, any visitor of hackspaces in different parts of the planet will be able to partake in the international forum Positive Hack Days.

17 hackspaces in 7 countries will throw their doors open on May 23 and 24. Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Cairo (Egypt), Birzeit (Palestine), Kollam (India), Tunis (Tunisia), as well as Kiev, Lviv, Vladivostok, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Kaliningrad, Omsk, Ufa, Voronezh, Saratov, and Krasnodar have already joined the initiative.

The NetHack Qualifying Round Ends

For a week, from May 7 to 15, hackers from all over the world were engaged in a fierce struggle during the NetHack competition. The participants needed to demonstrate their skills in obtaining control over network infrastructure via exploiting misconfiguration of the equipment.

One hundred and twenty-six solutions for the competition task were offered: the Positive Technologies experts in network security received 14 letters a day on average and evaluated the solutions. Eight finalists who showed the best results have been defined:

HackQuest is Completed. Best Reverser is Ready to Start

The epic hacking competition PHDays HackQuest has come to an end. The competition was organized by ONsec_Lab. It lasted from May 1 to 13 and drew 1441 participants, 112 of them solved at least one task.

Results
The racing continued right to the last minute. The top three was stable until the end of the contest: JustRelаx, MERRON, Bo0om. However, the sly tactics of capturing flags two minutes before the ending allowed one of the participants, namely karim, to win the contest. Bo0om also captured another flag at the last moment and left MERRON on the fourth place, from which he was overtaken by Yngwie.

So karim, who was the fourth not long before the end of the contest, won by 50 points. JustRelax being the leader throughout the contest took second place. Bo0om came in third.

We’ll keep our promise: 10 participants who showed the best results will get invitations to Positive Hack Days and special T-shirts (1 place — 5 tickets, 2 place — 4 tickets, 3 place — 3 tickets, from 4 to 10 place — 1 ticket per participant). Moreover, the top three participants will get diplomas.

Scoreboard in the Norton Commander style (http://hackquest.phdays.com/results.php):

New Reports at PHDays III: From ICS Security, to the Analysis of Java 0-day Exploits

How to build your own Stuxnet? Are security systems safe? Is it easy to watch the people and why physical security is the basis of any kind of security? Today we would like to bring to you attention some of more than 30 reports of the main technical program of Positive Hack Days III.