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Challenges
"Stuff" to hack, crack, explore and learn
During the InetSec course, we will announce a "challenge" here every couple of weeks
that you can solve. These challenges aim to allow you to gain some basic practical experience in the penetration testing and the security analysis of software and applications.
We have planned 6 challenges that deal with topics such as common
security tools, web vulnerabilities, phishing attacks, code cracking and
stack-based buffer overflows. The challenges are directly related to the concepts discussed in the lecture part of the course.
In order to successfuly pass the InetSec course, you have to have at least 50
points by the end of the semester. Each InetSec candidate starts the course
with -25 points. Each challenge you solve will give you 5
points. The written exam at the end of the semester consists of 100 possible
points. Suppose John Student, for example, solves 3 challenges and manages to get 70
points in the written exam. John will get a total of: -25+3*5+70=60 points for
the course.
To get the maximum number of points for the practical part of the course, you need to successfuly
solve at least 5 challenges. The 6th challenge will give you a bonus of
5 points.
The callenges in the course are not necessarily difficult (for people who can program and
who have basic Web, networking and software knowledge), but
may require you to do some research on the Internet and read
some documentation. Of course, you also need some patience.
By the way, we are aware that the InetSec environment is not highly secure. So
we trust you that you will not try to break or hack the system. That is
not a challenge. Remember that you are the good guy/gal. If we notice that you are trying to crack
us, there will be consequences - be warned :-)
Good luck and happy debugging ;-)
Last Modified: Wed Jul 20 10:09:33 CEST 2005
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