IP: £35,000 hacking challenge cracked

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:41:15 -0700
>From: Jay Anantharaman <jna@nuance.com>
>Organization: Nuance Communications
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>Subject: £35,000 hacking challenge cracked
>
>
>  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010423/152/bmqfd.html
>
>A team of computer hackers has captured £35,000 for hacking into
>a computer system just twenty-four hours after the competition began.
>
>Argus Systems organised the competition -- to break into a Web server
>locked down using its security product called PitBull -- to promote its
>products and to coincide with the start of Infosec, the UK's premier
>computer security event.
>
>Undeniably, the stunt backfired and is an embarrassment for
>Argus Systems Group, as well for as security consultant firm Integralis
>and hardware vendor Fujitsu Siemens, which helped organise the stunt
>and have coordinated three similar competitions in the US and Germany
>without suffering setbacks.



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