About the Hackers Challenge Contest

The Hackers Challenge contest is an event held annually during the SAINTCON conference to challenge your skills as a security professional by presenting players with technology, logical, and security related puzzles and challenges.

Roughly defined, the Hackers Challenge contest is a Jeopardy-like progressive game where players are presented with puzzles that require various security and technical skills to solve. Attendees work on these challenges and submit keys collected from solving them in order to earn points. The person with the highest score at the end of the contest wins.

Let the PRECON games begin!

For a little warmup practice, fun, and entertainment start your adventures at:

precon.hackerschallenge.org

CONTEST SUPPORT

If you need help completing a challenge ask for assistance on the #HackersChallenge channel in Slack.

CONTEST RULES

For me details on scoring and gameplay please see the gameserver.

The rules for the Hackers Challenge are loosly defined, but strictly include the following:

Play the game ethically
Do NOT share captured flags
You may work together as a team, but there can only be one winner
Do NOT brute force the scoring server. NO Challenge requires brute forcing the infrastructure
Do NOT steal flags by compromising other players

DISCLOSURES

The SAINTCON Hacker's Challenge admins reserve the right to disqualify and/or change scores for participants who violate the game rules or participate in unprofessional conduct. We reserve this right without right of dispute or for any other reason we feel is appropriate or prudent.