What happened to the challenges?

[eth3real]

I would love to see another challenge. I never had a chance to participate before, because the ones I saw were a bit over my head at the time, but now I'm anxious to get involved in something like that. Any idea if there's ever going to be another one?

Even though the actual challenges were over my head at the time, I really loved reading the story that went along with it, and some of the answers were incredible. My favorite was Frosty the Snow Crash.

[TheXero]

eth3real you mean hacker challenges like CTF etc?

I am currently building up a 'pentest network' which will hopefully allow people to VPN and do it in a safe environment

[n3r]

i think he's speaking about challenges on EHnet like in Skillz section like The Nightmare Before Charlie Brown's Christmas

[eth3real]

n3r, yes, that's exactly what I was talking about. I should have posted a link in the original post:

http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/170/2/
and
http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/344/2/

These are just a few, there's a bunch of them.

TheXero, I'm also interested in what you're doing, I'd love to hear some more details about this.

[TheXero]

Cool, the most recent challenge I hosted was in September and then I started to build a some ESXi hosts and how in the process of creating the VMs to run in the lab

Idea's for challenges are always welcome

[eth3real]

The 2600 chapter in my area is wanting to do something similar. I'll give you details when we start, maybe we can help eachother out.

[Eleven]

eth3real you mean hacker challenges like CTF etc?

I am currently building up a 'pentest network' which will hopefully allow people to VPN and do it in a safe environment

That sounds awesome.  Are people going to be able to use it for free?  Keep in mind not only would that be useful to penetration testers, but I'm sure it would really help those in forensics if you posted a torrent of the virtual machines and/or communication after the attacks for people to analyze.

[TheXero]

I have only hosted 2 or 3 recently (been a bit busy with my new lab).

It's all for a bit of fun/learning so yeah it's been free for everyone