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The SANS Holiday Hack Challenge is back! • The Register


Webinar Whether you are considering a career in cyber security or you already work in the industry, the 2023 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge is a great way of combining festive fun and learning. Who knows, the skills you acquire this holiday season might even help you foil a nefarious hacker at Yuletide next year.

That’s important because some reports reckon that Christmas and New Year is one of the most dangerous times of the year for cyber attacks, as cyber criminals ramp up their effort to exploit workers rushing to meet holiday deadlines and spend more time shopping on the internet during work hours. Phishing scams related to fake charity campaigns, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, and credential stuffing incidents that take advantage of staff Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) fatigue are all favourite seasonal scams for example.

Learning how to combat those threats is essential for the cyber security practitioner. The SANS Holiday Hack Challenge is designed for everyone – regardless of skill set or experience level – and offers a prize at the end of the competition for the best of the best entries. This year’s event – Holiday Hack Challenge 2023: A Holiday Odyssey – involves tasks that cover everything from AI-assisted cybersecurity, offense, defense, and AI voice cloning to cloud and web application security, threat hunting, phishing analysis, and the identification of vulnerabilities in space mission software packages.

You can join the fun here. You’ll see a YouTube video presented by Ed Skoudis, Director of the Holiday Hack Challenge, which gives you a sneak peek as to what expect while offering some ideas, tips, and tricks that could help you win the competition. There are also some festive, cyber security-themed tunes and beats to sing along with to get you in the mood.

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Computer Hacking Challenge To Educate That We Can All Ward Off And Completely Impede Cyber Data Crimes


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Computer Hacking challenge above was put out about three months ago and after an average of 150 weekly brute-force hacking attempts, no one has succeeded.

We are now in the era of generating, capturing, and storing large volumes of sensitive data, cybersecurity at the Data layer is the only 100% guaranteed approach that will impede Cyber Data Crime.”” – Valentine WatsBRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, October 12, 2023 /EINPresswire / — Hidden either in an Excelitte encrypted file or in the Excelitte database are some random text/numbers that will be referred to as Secret text waiting to be exposed for 10,000 US Dollars.

Anyone able to retrieve this 72-character line text and send it to us – () will automatically be paid $10,000 transferred to any designated bank account or bitcoin wallet.

A simple question that requires an answer to be provided has also been included to also prove that a person or persons has gained access to the secret text.

To win the challenge details such as the device name, file location or database type, and name from where the secret text was retrieved will need to be provided

There is a 100% conviction that it can’t be done, but in the unlikely event that anyone succeeds in exposing the text data, Excelitte will also pursue a working arrangement with such an individual provided he or she is not on any security services wanted list globally.
It has now been over three months since this challenge above was publicised and after an average of 150 weekly brute force hacking attempts, no person or entity has been able to breach our IT infrastructure.

If an IT network is breached, Excelitte serves as a last line of defence for all data and provides a 100% guarantee that your data can’t be viewed, or ‘ransomwared’ by unauthorised persons.

Excelitte also will use Predictive Analytics – Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning precepts and probability Scoring to pre-empt, defend against all cyber-attacks and take offensive action as necessary.

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Temsconsu Issues Ethical Hacking Challenge With US$10,000 Reward For Cracking The Security Of Its Excelitte System


Australia-based software engineering firm Temsconsu, the makers of the Excelitte file encryption and database security system, has issued a challenge for ethical hackers and IT experts to crack the security of its Excelitte system and find a hidden line of text. The first person to successfully find this text and notify Temsconsu about it will receive a prize of US$10,000.

The 72-character line of text, composed of letters and numbers, is hidden in either an Excelitte-encrypted file or in the Excelitte database. The person who can retrieve the text and send it to Excelitte’s designated email will receive the US$10,000 prize transferred to their bank account or bitcoin wallet. They also need to answer a simple question, as well as provide details such as the device name, file location, or database type, to prove that they have accessed the secret text.

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Aside from the US$10,000 reward, Temsconsu will offer an employment opportunity, provided that the successful individual is not part of any criminal watchlist.

“The US$10,000 prize and job offer shows how confident we are in Excelitte’s security,” says Valentine Wats, founder of Temsconsu. “We’ve made it very hard for anyone to expose the data we’ve hidden, but, in the unlikely event someone does, we would like to work with them because that means they know something that we don’t. Every week, we look at everything that happens in the field of cybersecurity, such as hacking incidents and data breaches, and see how we can counter these attacks. We go into the dark web to study how hackers operate from an ethical point of view and reverse-engineer their methods to ensure that Excelitte’s security is watertight.”

According to Wats, the challenge demonstrates the importance of cybersecurity in today’s environment, especially since many large public and private sector organizations have digitized their data and stored it in on the cloud or on devices connected to the internet. Cyber theft and other cybercrimes have been rapidly rising in recent years, with major hacking incidents hitting the news headlines every few weeks. This does not include the thousands of smaller incidents that do not gain media…

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CSA launches Cybersecurity Industry Call for Innovation 2023 with Challenge Statements by Three End-Users


More than 50 Proposals Received for CyberCall 2022, Four Proposals Selected

The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), together with National University of Singapore (NUS) Enterprise, launched the Cybersecurity Industry Call for Innovation 2023 (CyberCall 2023) today. The launch was announced by Mrs Josephine Teo, Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-in-charge of Smart Nation and Cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity Innovation Day 2023 held today, 29 September 2023, at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre.

2      The CyberCall initiative, first launched in 2018, seeks to catalyse the development of innovative cybersecurity solutions. Through this, CSA aims to strengthen organisations’ cyber resilience and at the same time provide opportunities for cybersecurity companies to contribute to the development of innovative solutions that shows potential to be applied in many organisations’ systems.  Each selected solution that fulfils the eligibility criteria may receive a funding of up to S$1,000,000 under CSA’s Cybersecurity Co-Innovation and Development Fund (CCDF).

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3      This year’s CyberCall is looking for proposals in the following areas: 

a. Cybersecurity for Artificial intelligence (AI) 

To safeguard AI systems and the data they process from various cyber attacks in order to maintain the integrity, confidentiality, trustworthiness and reliability of AI applications in an increasingly connected and digital world.

b. Using AI for cybersecurity

To harness the power of AI to strengthen organisations’ cyber defences to protect their systems, data and networks, improve threat detection, and respond more effectively to cyber attacks.

c. Operational Technology (OT) / Internet of Things (IoT) security

To safeguard critical infrastructure, Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and internet-connected devices from cyber threats and vulnerabilities. 

d. Cloud security

To safeguard infrastructure, data and applications hosted in cloud environments, while maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of resources in the cloud.

e. Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PET)

To safeguard the privacy of individuals…

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