Game of Hacks: Test your application hacking skills online
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 08/11/2014 07:07 AM
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Think you have the hacking skills needed to identify exploitable code? You now have a legal way to prove that you have the chops. An Israeli security company released a code vulnerability test game in which players will need to identify vulnerable code within a set amount of time.
According to the Times of Israel, Checkmarx announced the game this week at the annual Blackhat cyber-security convention in Las Vegas, which is incidentally where the Russian hack breach was announced — and that turned into the talk of the town. The hackers are using the purloined usernames and passwords mostly to send spam to social network and e-mail accounts — but no one at this time really knows the extent of the damage, and how many passwords the hackers have stolen for banking, insurance, government, and infrastructure sites.
The game, available for desktop, tablet and mobile, presents the developer with vulnerable pieces of code and challenges them to identify the application layer vulnerability as quickly as possible. It’s designed for both beginning and advanced programmers, covering hacker “top 10 favorite” vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, Log Forgery, Path traversal, Parameter Tampering, and many other esoteric terms that make the eyes of ordinary people glaze over, but cause dollar signs to flash in hackers’ eyes.
Maty Siman, CTO and founder of Checkmarx says that “thinking like a hacker can ensure developers protect their applications from the most likely exploits. As mobile and web applications grow in popularity, protecting consumer information before it is put at risk is more important than ever.”
According to the Times of Israel, Checkmarx announced the game this week at the annual Blackhat cyber-security convention in Las Vegas, which is incidentally where the Russian hack breach was announced — and that turned into the talk of the town. The hackers are using the purloined usernames and passwords mostly to send spam to social network and e-mail accounts — but no one at this time really knows the extent of the damage, and how many passwords the hackers have stolen for banking, insurance, government, and infrastructure sites.
The game, available for desktop, tablet and mobile, presents the developer with vulnerable pieces of code and challenges them to identify the application layer vulnerability as quickly as possible. It’s designed for both beginning and advanced programmers, covering hacker “top 10 favorite” vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, Log Forgery, Path traversal, Parameter Tampering, and many other esoteric terms that make the eyes of ordinary people glaze over, but cause dollar signs to flash in hackers’ eyes.
Maty Siman, CTO and founder of Checkmarx says that “thinking like a hacker can ensure developers protect their applications from the most likely exploits. As mobile and web applications grow in popularity, protecting consumer information before it is put at risk is more important than ever.”
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