Hurricane Labs Hack Challenge Recap

Last night (July 15, 2009) we had our first Hack Challenge in a very long time (we've held them quite a bit in the past) so I wanted to recap it a bit here using words and pictures. :-) Here we go.


The purpose of our Hack Challenges is to demonstrate both the ease of exploiting flaws and an educational exercise in defending yourself against those exploits. Last night's challenge seemed to excel at both. The skill levels ranged from beginner to expert and the scores seemed to reflect that range quite well. Hopefully everyone had fun and learned something. Now on to the pics.


We had tables with network drops set up at several points in our office:



















We also had far more people than we expected which was awesome!





We set up a learning area where you could go to get information about how to actually exploit the vulnerable targets and get flags. This was also used to demonstrate some of the more powerful tools out there (such as metasploit, etc):












Now on to our winners! We only gave out prizes for first, second and third:







Third Place Nick Consolo:






Second Place was a team of guys ( I don't have all their names so I won't list any):








And finally...First Place when to Nathanial Maier










All of our winners:






We want to sincerely thank everyone who participated last night along with the guys from Security Justice who did their podcast from our offices last night and The NEO Infosec Forum who helped to promote the event. Extra special thanks to my staff who really put on an extraordinary event (I'm biased though). Great job guys! We hope everyone had fun and learned something. We'll be sure to let everyone know when the next one will be held.