Re: LUG: Security Competition on December 3 - Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:22:20 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: Security Competition on December 3

From : "Destefanis, Pablo" <pdestefanis@rti.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:22:20 -0500

Hello,

Can non-students attend to the competition (without participating)?

Thank you,

Pablo A. Destefanis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-owner@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
> [mailto:lug-owner@lists.ncsu.[redacted]] On Behalf Of Chris Bookholt
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 09:43
> To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]; nag@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
> Subject: LUG: Security Competition on December 3
>
> Greetings,
>
> On December 3 from 12-8PM there will be a computer/network
> security competition held on the NC State campus. NCSU
> participants will form a team that will be part of a large
> competition hosted by UC Santa Barbara. Teams will be from
> schools around the world including Germany, Italy, Austria
> and the US (including military academies).
>
> We will be given a VMware image of a Linux distro (probably
> based on a previous Red Hat release). Basically, our task
> will be to defend the network services provided by our image
> and attack those provided by other teams. No denial of
> service is allowed, as the competition only lasts 8 hours.
>
> The NCSU team can have a max of 10 people and currently we
> have about 8.
> I would like to solicit requests from LUG and NAG members
> to join the team, because many of you are highly qualified.
> The only official requirement for participation is that you
> are an NCSU student (grad or undergrad). However, I would
> expect that you are very familiar with Linux and have some
> prior experience with either writing buffer overflows or
> hardening Linux.
>
> Since the defenses can be adequately handled by only two or
> three people, should I get more requests than available
> spots, I will give preference to those with offense
> experience (buffer overflows, etc.).
>
> Thanks for your time. I look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Best Regards,
> Chris
> --
> Chris Bookholt, RHCE
> cgbookho@ncsu.[redacted]
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>

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