Registration Open For Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2013, Prize Money Boosted

Registration Open For Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2013, Prize Money Boosted 

After the success of  'Blue Hat' Security Contest, now it is the time for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup. Redmond based software giant Microsoft has been organizing its Imagine Cup student technology competition for the last 10 years and today, the company opened registration for the 2013 edition of this event. Students ages 16 and older can now register for their national events and the winners of these local events will be flown to St. Petersburg, Russia, where the worldwide finals will take place from July 8 to 11. For this edition of Imagine Cup, Microsoft has doubled the prize money to $300,000. Since the first Imagine Cup in 2003, says Microsoft, over 1.65 million students across the globe have participated in Imagine Cup and a number of the teams that made it to the finals (and many that have not) went on to create startups.

Here is Microsoft’s description of the new core competitions:

• World Citizenship: Honors the software application developed on Microsoft platforms with the greatest potential to make a positive impact on humanity. For example, a project might address education-, social- or healthcare-related problems.
• Games: Honors the most engaging and entertaining games targeting teens and youth, built on Microsoft platforms (Windows 8, Windows Phone, Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit, and Xbox Indie Games).
• Innovation: Honors apps that give consumers inspiration and innovation at their fingertips, whether it be a new spin on social networks, online shopping or search, built with Microsoft tools and technology.

The winners of each of these competitions will get $50,000. In addition to the core competitions, students can also compete in a number of online challenges focused on specific technologies and platforms, including Windows 8, Windows Azure and Windows Phone. For detailed information click Here.

-Source (Microsoft, Imagine Cup & TC)

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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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Google Offers $1 Million For Hackers To Exploit Chrome (Pwnium: Rewards For Exploits)

Google Offers $1 Million For Hackers To Exploit Chrome (Pwnium: Rewards For Exploits)

The search giant Google is offering a huge amount (total $1 million) of reward for those who will successfully hack the Google Chrome browser at the Pwn2Own Hacker Contest taking place next week (7 March, 2012). Google will reward those successful contestants at Pwn2Own with prices of $60,000, $40,000 and $20,000 – depending on the severity of the exploits that are demonstrated on a Windows 7 machine running the browser. The Prizes will be awarded on a first-come-first-serve basis, until the entire $1 million has been claimed.

Chrome is currently the only web browser eligible for entry into Pwn2Own that has never been successfully hacked. Contestants often note the difficulty of bypassing Google’s security sandbox as a reason for this. “While we’re proud of Chrome’s leading track record in past competitions, the fact is that not receiving exploits means that it’s harder to learn and improve,” said Chris Evans and Justin Schuh, members of the Google Chrome security team. “To maximize our chances of receiving exploits this year, we’ve upped the ante. We will directly sponsor up to $1 million worth of rewards.”

Additional information can be found on the Chromium official blog.

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Hackers From Netherlands Come-out As World Champions In "Global CyperLympics"

Hackers From Netherlands Come-out As World Champions In "Global CyperLympics"

Dr. Hamadoun Toure, Secretary General, International Telecommunication Union, successfully completed "Global Cyberlympics"- World's first international team ethical hacking championship. The world finals saw a head-to-head competition right from the beginning with teams from across the world including India, Hungary, United Arab Emirates, Netherlands and the United States of America competing for the title. Each of these teams represents either the first or second place finisher from their regional competition. 

“The Global CyberLympics could help to foster a greater sense of partnership and cooperation between countries on the issue of cybersecurity,” said Mohd Noor Amin, Chairman of IMPACT. “By sharing knowledge, training and resources, we can help to improve the level of cybersecurity in many countries and regions around the world.”

“We congratulate the team from Deloitte Netherlands! The competition was intense and the teams were truly the best in the world. The fact that the lead changed every few minutes shows how much it takes to capture the hill and stay on it.” said Jay Bavisi, Chairman of the Global CyberLympics Organizing Committee and president of EC-Council. Registration for the Global CyberLympics 2012 is open, and more details can be found at the official Global CyberLympics website: http://www.cyberlympics.org

Brief About Global CyberLympics:- the world’s first international team ethical hacking championships, which kicked off in September 2011 with regional live competitions in Budapest, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai and Miami, wrapped up today with the world finals in Chantilly, Virginia where the team formed by Deloitte Netherlands emerged as world champions. Team USA finished as runner up and team Hungary took the third place after a grueling contest.

-Source (Cyberlympics & Times Union)

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