“After four days of constant attack, PC Week Labs’ www.
hackpcweek.com site was still standing late last week, and the
invitation to hack it was still open, at least for the Windows NT
site. Putting up this site has already given us a great deal of
insight into how hackers (or crackers) work-not to mention an
earful of theories as to what we’re up to.”
“Contrary to popular belief, the site is not a front for the
FBI, National Security Agency or the elusive Cancer Man of
“X-Files” fame. It is, instead, a vehicle PC Week Labs created to
highlight the vulnerabilities in Web programming models.”
“As this story went to press, it appeared that a hacker had
found an exploit in the permissions structure of the Common Gateway
Interface scripts running on the Linux box. This appears to be a
good hack.“