“In its second major test of Web enterprise security, Labs
Interactive, by the editors of eWEEK, in conjunction with digital
security services firm Guardent, has created an e-commerce site and
is challenging the public to hack the site at openhack.com. Prize
money of up to $2,500 will be awarded to the first hacker to crack
the site which mimics a true corporate e-commerce network,
including e-mail, Web server, a database application, remote access
and five different operating systems. The challenge goes live on
June 26 and runs through the first two weeks of July.”
“Openhack.com will allow visitors to attempt to crack
security on a large corporate Web site for the following operating
systems: Solaris, Windows 2000, Windows NT, OpenBSD and Linux.
Cash prizes will be awarded to the first person to corrupt the
Oracle database, deface the Web server, hack the e-commerce server
or active directory of reroute DNS.”
“John Taschek, director of eWEEK Labs, sees the point of this
exercise as a way to educate the public on Web site security
issues. “We have designed this one-of-a-kind testing to illustrate
to our readers where Web sites are probably most vulnerable, how
hackers are getting in and how to ultimately build a more secure
site,” he said. “It’s not as important to uncover failures in any
particular part of the network as it is to find out how the attacks
are taking place.”