Some additional info:

How it will work:

we will meet in an IRC channel and be assigned teams with at least one LSO mentor per team. 

You will then SSH into your host, secure it the best you can and then work on hacking the other teams boxes.  The hosts should all be different *nix variants.

time to put those CEH & CPTS and Linux command line skills into action...

post up any questions you have

All,

http://www.LearnSecurityOnline.com will be having a "baby rootwars"/speedroot this Saturday, 2 Sept 06, starting at 3pm EST.  International folks please check the world clock at: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ so you are there on time. Everyone will be emailed with specifics. All players need to show up at least 30min prior to competition.


If you are interested in getting into rootwars this will be a "training" one with time to learn what you are doing and what needs to be done.

contact Joe McCracy (joe@learnsecurityonline.com) to sign up.

she's not quite 1 yet, so i think i have some time...

cool, hopefully procrastination will pay off in this case...

which game?

welcome!

that is exactly the reason my daughter will be writing buffer overflows and reversing binaries and NOT posting or playing on MySpace or whatever its replacement is by that time...

meh

i spend my free time hacking stuff not watching crappy british e-TV

any way to get another copy of this vid posted somewhere? i dont want to register

wow great stuff!  congrats

you need to learn to program (even if just enough to be dangerous), you need to learn to use a debugger and disassembler (again, even if just enough to be dangerous)

added to that is that there are plenty of english targets for most exploits but very few for chinese targets...now that sucks...

how is everyone doing on the web app 1 challenge?

probably because its windows NT, a 2k box should be vulnerable to more combinations of the unicode attack.

any interest in a tutorial on this?  i have some content around here somewhere...