The catch is, of course, that the competitions are actually scenarios
protecting against attacks rather than attacking.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Micheal Cottingham
<techie.micheal (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
> You might want to see if you can either get involved (you didn't say
> where you were) or get information from the National CCDC:
> http://www.nationalccdc.org/ They have competitions very similar to
> what you are describing for college/university students.
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:48 AM, <dimkovtrajce (at) yahoo (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
>> Hi, in my university we try to set an exercise for first year master students in computer security in which they need to compromise a system using social engineering and technological skills.
>>
>> we are looking at a multistep scenario, in which they need to gain physical possession of the device(for ex. laptop or pda) and extract encrypted data from it. They will get points at each checkpoint.
>>
>> The students come from 3 host universities where they get their other classes, so my guess is that we will need to set 3 samples of the same exercise, or make the exercise somehow distributed.
>>
>> Since you have much more hands on experience, can you give us any tips or ideas for setting the exercise, so the students get interested in taking more security courses?
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Dimkov Trajce
>>
>

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