Hacking Event this week (with Raspberry Pis) and CompSoc Competition - compsoc-announce

12 May 2013

Hi Everyone!

This week we have a really cool event lined up! Dionach (a white-hat pen
testing company based on the outskirts of our fine city) are coming in
with a load of raspberry pi's set up with particular vulnerabilities.
They will talk a bit about particular vulnerabilities and get teams of
people to try and break into them remotely. This is definitely an event
you will want to come down to!

Also, this week, we have a competition running, organised by our
secretary Greg:

...
  CompSoc is having mini competition to see who can make
the best Sevens
 playing program! Will happen around 7-10pm next Saturday evening in
 the social area.

 At some point that evening submit to me a Java .class file which
 implements the following interface. Anything goes except reflection,
 returning invalid moves, or causing the simulation to hang! :P

 https://github.com/greglo/Sevens/blob/master/src/Player.java
 <https://github.com/greglo/Sevens/blob/master/src/Player.java>
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevens_(card_game)
 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevens_%28card_game%29> 
The actual running of the competition will happen during our next weekly
geek night. Hope to see many of you there!

Here are the full details for Wednesday's event:

      Capture the Pi Challenge - Workshop with Dionach

<http://ox.compsoc.net/termcards/2013/trinity/Capture_the_Pi_Challenge_-_Workshop_with_Dionach/>

Wednesday 15th May
Department Of Computer Science - Lecture Theatre A

This week we have a guest company, Dionach <http://www.dionach.com/>,
coming in to do an interactive session with attendees. You will need to
bring your laptops with you for this event, and don't forget power
cables. People will also be grouped up into teams.

Teams will be challenged to exploit vulnerabilities that have been setup
on Raspberry Pis, in order to understand various types of software
vulnerabilities.

Dionach are an information security consultancy based in Oxfordshire
that specialize in penetration testing.

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/605392719472561/

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Kind Regards,
Sam

Sam Lanning
President - Oxford University Computer Society
president(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:president@ox.compsoc.net>