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Amazon.com say "Hack me"

  • 17-02-2001 02:23AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">
    *snip* you might be interested in entering the Ultimate Hacking
    Exposed Contest that's happening right now at Amazon.com. Check out
    all the details here:

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/134656/ref=hc_ebg_1

    Amazon.com, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, and Foundstone, Inc., have
    developed a security-breach scenario for you to solve. If you are
    security-savvy and can spot hacker attacks, this is your chance to
    show your stuff. Winners will be enrolled for free in Foundstone's
    "Ultimate Hacking: Hands On" course--a total value of $3,500.

    You might also be interested in this great collection of hacking
    and network-security books from Amazon.com:

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/137719/ref=hc_ebg_2

    Check out the Ultimate Hacking Exposed Contest and get ready to
    footprint, scan, and enumerate! Better hurry, though--contest ends
    March 1, 2001. (See below for more details.)

    *snip*

    The fine print:

    No purchase necessary to enter. Void where prohibited. Contest runs
    from 12:01 a.m. PST on January 31, 2001, through 11:59 p.m. PST on
    March 1, 2001. Legal residents of U.S. age 18 and over eligible to
    enter.

    For complete official rules and details on how to enter the contest,
    visit:
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/135983

    </font>


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭satchmo


    Looks like a thinly-veiled attempt by Amazon to sell that "Hacking Exposed" book.

    As for the challenge, that "GET /global.asa+.htr" in the log sticks out like a sore thumb. Yet another security hole in IIS, apply a patch or remove .htr script mapping. Hardly as tricky a challenge as Amazon would have us believe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭ObeyGiant


    One thing I've never understood about these types of competitions..

    "If you are security-savvy and can spot hacker attacks, this is your chance to show your stuff. Winners will be enrolled for free in Foundstone's 'Ultimate Hacking: Hands On' course--a total value of $3,500"

    Why give the WINNER this prize? Surely the losers would need the education more? smile.gif


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