WASHINGTON — NAFCU Services Corp. and Digital Defense will present what they call the "Credit Union Extreme Hacker Challenge" at the 2008 NAFCU Technology and Security Conference in Las Vegas on Feb. 25-28.
"Following a background briefing, attendees will break up into teams for a 'capture-the-flag'-type competition, with increasingly difficult targets. In essence, attendees will have a chance to–legally–be hackers for a day," said David Frankil, president of NAFCU Services Corp.
Tom DeSot, chief compliance officer at Texas-based Digital Defense, will be running the competition.
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"Traditional hacker labs tend to be very passive, showing (for example) compromised credit card information being traded live online," he said. "But what is even more useful is to show security professionals how the information was compromised in the first place. Their approach to security often changes when they see that it takes just a few keystrokes on a command line to compromise a network."
More information on the competition, including a podcast from DeSot, is available at http://nafcuservices.podbean.com/.
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