Facebook Hacker Cup 2013: Petr Mitrichev Won The Competition Followed By Jakub Pachocki & Marcin Smulewicz

Facebook Hacker Cup 2013: Petr Mitrichev Won The Competition Followed By Jakub Pachocki & Marcin Smulewicz

Now a days leading organizations offers bug bounty and other competitions by which hackers from different part of the world will participate and find out security holes, in order to make more secure product and enhance cyber security. While talking about hackers competition then the name of "Hacker Cup" organized by the social networking giant Facebook will surely be an important one. Like last last two years, this year also Facebook called Hacker Cup 2013 in February and after completing several exciting  rounds finally we have the winners of this year's championship. Last year it was Roman Andreev of Russia who won the Hacker Cup with a heavy and prestigious trophy and a check for $5,000. Just like last year, this time also thousand of hackers across the globe participated in the competition and after completing the breathtaking championship three lucky winners been rewarded by Facebook for the outstanding performance. And the winners of Hacker Cup 2013 are Petr Mitrichev,  in second place we have Jakub Pachocki and third place it was Marcin Smulewicz. The social networking giant congratulated all the competitors who taken part in Hacker Cup for a great showing and performance. This year winner Petr Mitrichev solved all the four problems (Archiver, Colored Trees, Minesweeping, Teleports) in a due time and honored with the highly coveted Hacker Cup Trophy and an amount of $10,000. Here are some key moments of this year Hacker Cup:- 

 (Hacker Cup 2103 Finalist)

 (Competition is on)

 (The Prestigious Trophy) 

(Electric Moment)

(Hacker Cup 2103 Award)

(Petr Mitrichev Hacker Cup Winner)

Brief About Facebook Hacker Cup:-

Hacking is core to how we build at Facebook. Whether we’re building a prototype for a major product like Timeline at a Hackathon, creating a smarter search algorithm, or tearing down walls at our new headquarters, we’re always hacking to find better ways to solve problems. Programmers from around the world will be judged on accuracy and speed as they race to solve algorithmic problems to advance through up to five rounds of programming challenges. This is the chance to compete against the world’s best programmers for awesome prizes and the title of World Champion. 

As expected Facebook promises to continue this event every year so keep your eye out for signups to open to be the Hacker Cup 2014. So stay tuned with VOGH, for all the upcoming updates on cyber security. 

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Roman Andreev From Russia Won "Facebook Hacker Cup 2012"

Roman Andreev From Russia Won "Facebook Hacker Cup 2012"

Facebook officially declared "Facebook Hacker Cup 2012" - an annual worldwide programming competition where hackers compete against each other for fame, fortune, glory and a shot at the coveted Hacker Cup. Now its time for the conclusion and to announce the winner. The final round of Facebook Hacker Cup 2012 started yesterday at 10 AM at Facebook’s office in Menlo Park and lasted for three hours. The best of the best programmers from around the world competed by taking a stab at three separate problems. After a thrilling fight Roman Andreev from Russia won the Hacker Cup with a heavy and prestigious trophy and a check for $5,000. "Thousands competed, but only one can be the world champion. Big congrats to Roman from Russia, our new Hacker Cup Champion!" - declared by facebook on the official page of Hackers Cup. Tomek Czajka from the US & Tiancheng Lou from Chinaenlisted their names among the top three competitors from this year’s Hacker Cup. 

Here is a brief:- 

1st place: Roman Andreev from Russia, completed one problem correctly in 1 hr 4 min
2nd place: Tomek Czajka from the US, completed one problem correctly in 1 hr 5 min
3rd place: Tiancheng Lou from China, completed one problem correctly in 1 hr 44 min  

As expected Fcaebook promises to continue this event every year so keep your eye out for signups to open to be the Hacker Cup champ of 2013.

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Facebook Hacker Cup 2012

Are you a good programmer and security junkies? If yes then its your time to prove your skills. Facebook wants you to prove it at its second annual Hacker Cup challenge. The Facebook Hacker Cup is an annual worldwide programming competition where hackers compete against each other for fame, fortune, glory and a shot at the coveted Hacker Cup.

Open to coders anywhere in the world, Facebook's competition pits participants against each other in five rounds of programming challenges. The first kicks off January 20 with a 72-hour qualification round. Three more online rounds will thin the field down to the final 25 competitors, who will be flown out to Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters for a final competition in March.

The winner will receive a $5,000 cash prize. Last year, nearly 12,000 programmers participated in the Hacker's Cup. Petr Mitrichev, a Google employee from Russia, took home the top prize.

According To Facebook:-

Hacking is core to how we build at Facebook. Whether we’re building a prototype for a major product like Timeline at a Hackathon, creating a smarter search algorithm, or tearing down walls at our new headquarters, we’re always hacking to find better ways to solve problems.

 Today we’re announcing open registration for Facebook’s second annual Hacker Cup. Programmers from around the world will be judged on accuracy and speed as they race to solve algorithmic problems to advance through up to five rounds of programming challenges. This is your chance to compete against the world’s best programmers for awesome prizes and the title of World Champion.

What: An annual algorithmic programming contest open to engineers from around the world.

Where: Three online rounds with the finals at Facebook's headquarters in California.

When: Registration opens January 4, 2012 with the three online rounds occurring throughout January 2012. World finals to follow.

Finals: We'll pay to fly and accommodate the top 25 hackers from the third online round out to our campus.

Prizes: Of course! $5,000 USD and title as world champion to the top hacker, $2,000 for second place, $1,000 for third, and $100 for fourth through 25th. Awesome t-shirts for the top 100 hackers coming out of the second online round.

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Facebook Said - Please Hack Us & Get Bounty of $500

Facebook Said - Please Hack Us & Get Bounty of $500

Earlier through Hackers Cup, Facebook has already shown honour to hackers now social networking giant Facebook is directly encouraging hackers to try hacking its security systems to find weaknesses. Those who succeed will receive a reward of US$500 or more and have their name added to a list of helpful hackers.

The hackers have taken part in Facebook's White Hat program. Anyone who finds a way of breaching the site's networks, and owns up, can earn rewards worth thousands of dollars. As well as money, Facebook promises not to land them in trouble with the police & legal harassment if they have complied with the program's golden rules. Already one British hacker has earned more than $2400 from Facebook, and the most prolific White Hat contributors are now given their own Facebook "bug bounty" credit cards. Facebook's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, says he would much rather the hackers worked with the company, rather than against it. In time, he hopes the hackers will be able to find legitimate ways of expressing themselves within schools and universities. "There is a real lack of practical academic programs for cyber-security not only in the US but also internationally," he said. "Cyber-security is a skill best learned by doing, and unfortunately many of the current academic programs place little emphasis on real-world practical experience such as that gained in competition or via bug-bounty programs.

According to Facebook - "If you're a security researcher, please review our responsible disclosure policy before reporting any vulnerabilities. If you give us a reasonable time to respond to your report before making any information public and make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data and interruption or degradation of our service during your research, we will not bring any lawsuit against you or ask law enforcement to investigate you."

Eligibility:-
To qualify for a bounty, you must:

• Adhere to our Responsible Disclosure Policy:

• Be the first person to responsibly disclose the bug

• Report a bug that could compromise the integrity of Facebook user data, or circumvent the privacy protections of Facebook user data, such as:

• Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

• Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF/XSRF)

• Remote Code Injection

• Broken Authentication (including Facebook OAuth bugs)

• Circumvention of our Platform permission model

• A bug that allows the viewing of private user data

• Reside in a country not under any current U.S. Sanctions (e.g., North Korea, Libya, Cuba, etc.)

Rewards:-

• A typical bounty is $500 USD

• We may increase the reward for specific bugs

• Only 1 bounty per security bug will be awarded

Exclusions:-
The following bugs aren't eligible for a bounty (and we don't recommend testing for these):

• Security bugs in third-party applications (e.g., http://apps.facebook.com/[app_name])

• Security bugs in third-party websites that integrate with Facebook

• Security bugs in Facebook's corporate infrastructure

• Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

• Spam or Social Engineering technique

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