Many things changed since the contest Competitive Intelligence was held last time. Snowden exposed NSA, it turned out that not only gossip-hungry housewives interfere in people’s lives on the Internet, but also serious specialists with the help of MIT mathematicians. The security of both proprietary and open-source protocol implementations proved to be far lower than expected. Algorithms for processing big data in cloud solutions nowadays allow tracking correlations of bitcoin transactions, which previously were considered safe and anonymous….
Three winners — those, who solves the task quicker than others, will receive free tickets to PHDays IV, where they will be generously awarded. The prize for being the first is iPad. The contest will be held one week before the forum and will last for two days — May 15 and 16.
You are welcome to register at
http://www.phdays.com/registration/.
If you have any questions email them to
ci@ptsecurity.com.
This year's contest sponsor is
Zecurion.
Writeup Cometitive Intelligence PHDays III
The main idea for the "Competitive Intelligence" competition was to employ real-world methods for data collection and analysis, penetration testing, search mechanisms and deductive reasoning as well as to access audience’s awareness level of information security.
Unlike in 2012, since the tasks proved more difficult, this year no one managed to solve all of the challenges. Winners collected 12 correct answers and were ranked based on how much time they spent completing the activities.
Now, let’s estimate the results, provide correct answers for those that failed and review the amended list of winners.
The company to work with was
Godzilla Nursery Laboratory - as international company breeding and selling companion godzillas. Godzillas were chosen deliberately as they "guarded" a railway in the Choo Choo Pwn competition.
Google directly hints that the official site of this company with a nice logo is www.godzillanurserylab.com, and most employees have LinkedIn profiles. Well, come on!