This hacking contest is organized as part of Felicity, the annual cultural and technical festival, to be held from 18th – 20th February, 2011.
Real Hacking Contest!
Most hacking challenges creates a dummy site/scenario where organizers know in advance how far you can go! In most of those challenges, once you uncover security holes, you are often encountered with a lame message congratulating you.
But in this real hacking contest, you are expected to hack into IIIT Hyderabad’s website itself i.e. http://iiit.ac.in/
They have promised not to sue you but make sure if you break-in successfully rather than damaging and creating havoc, you contact organizers to claim your prize. 😉
Prizes:
As per official site 1st Prize is Rs. 5000. But I personally feel that this hacking contest itself is bigger than any other prize! 😉
Though, you can see complete list of prizes here.
Event Date:
The test run will be on Jan 29th, 2010 i.e. tomorrow and main contest will be on Jan 30th 2010. Time will be 10PM IST.
Link: Break In If You Can
5 Comments
Wow I am sure many hackers will be interested..it looks so amazing 😉
@ Rahul : Its good to see you post after a long time.
@ Post : Hacking the site and being acclaimed is much greater than the prize money itself. Um wishing best of luck to all my hacker friends 🙂
Thanks Gourav.. 🙂
First they need to protect their website..lol their website was hacked by some hacker ..how they conduct hacking competition lol
I noticed their site is running very slow at the moment but its not certainly hacked. Its opened very well here.
2 points:
First the competition is over 4 days back.
Second the competition aim was to get their site hacked. So even it would have been hacked, that was supposed to be expected thing! 😉
Technically no site in this world is unhackable. So if any site gets hacked its not a big deal as long as private information like password is protected using proper hashing algorithms.
Incident like Lifehacker user’s password leak was real shameful – https://devilsworkshop.org/alert-gawkers-source-code-user-database-download-torrent/