Phdays news
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June 14, 2016
PHDays VI: WAF Bypass Contest
The WAF Bypass competition, now an annual event held during Positive Hack Days, an international forum on information security, was organized in May this year as well.
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June 9, 2016
PHD VI: How They Stole Our Drone
This year, a new competition was introduced at PHDays, where anyone could try to take control over a Syma X5C quadcopter.
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May 23, 2016
The Most Notable Moments of PHDays VI: Day One
More than 3,000 people attended the Positive Hack Days information security forum during its first day.
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May 18, 2016
Teenager Hacks Electrical Substation at PHDays
A contest on hacking industrial equipment was held on May 17 during Positive Hack Days, an information security forum. According to the contest scenario, hackers attacked a model electrical power supply system.
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May 16, 2016
The PHDays VI Business Program: Honest Discussion of Difficult Issues
Can we protect enterprises and transportation systems from threats of the forth industrial revolution also known as Industry 4.0? Will the cybersecurity market employ a service model?
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May 10, 2016
Tickets to PHDays VI Are Available till May 13
Even though PHDays VI is just around the corner, there is still a chance to become a part of it. Tickets will be available for sale till May 13.
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May 4, 2016
PHDays VI Life Stories: How Moxie Marlinspike Defeated FBI and John Bambenek Sniffed Out Number One Hacker
In early April, all the largest mass media worldwide talked about Moxie Marlinspike — a billion of WhatsApp users are now end-to-end encrypted by his Signal Protocol.
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April 28, 2016
Lightning Talk: Get Your 5 Minutes of Fame at PHDays VI
We invite you to take part in a session of 5-minute talks at Positive Hack Days VI. Tell the audience about a new vulnerability or a problem in security algorithms.
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April 12, 2016
New Contests at PHDays VI: Hacking Power Facilities and Smart Homes
The PHDays competitions have always featured cutting edge challenges, testing the skills of participants. This year, the competitions revolve around the infrastructure of the city of CityF.
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March 31, 2016
The EAST 4 SCADA Stand: How to Derail a Train
Ever wondered if you could crash a train? Well, now you can give it a shot at the PHDays EAST 4 SCADA showcase.
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March 29, 2016
New at PHDays: Hardware Village
This year, we are launching Hardware Village at Positive Hack Days.
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March 23, 2016
CityF Contest: A Standoff between Hackers and Security Experts
In just two months, we will kick off Positive Hack Days VI.
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March 18, 2016
Non-Technical Program, or Hackers and Artists are only One Step Apart
Do hackers and artists truly come from two different worlds? Well, we don’t believe that
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February 25, 2016
PHDays VI Young School Call for Papers
PHDays Young School has become something of a tradition at the annual PHDays forum. Now in its fifth year, Young School
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February 17, 2016
Introducing PHDays VI Reports: How to Hack a Fare Card, Set Up a Honeypot, and Sell Vulnerabilities
On January 31, the first wave of applications to join Positive Hack Days was completed.
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February 2, 2016
Discount PHDays VI Tickets Available till February 14
We’ve made a decision to extend the current Early Birds discount period for two more weeks
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December 17, 2015
Tickets for PHDays VI are now available
Tickets for the international forum on information security Positive Hack Days VI are available for purchase from December 17
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December 3, 2015
Speak About Your Cyberwar at PHDays VI
Positive Hack Days VI, the international forum on practical information security, opens Call for Papers on December 3, 2015.
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November 10, 2015
PHDays VI: Moving to Direct Confrontation
The sixth Positive Hack Days forum on practical information security will take place at the Moscow World Trade Center on May 17 and 18, 2016.
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August 12, 2015
People are Main Vulnerabilities. Social Engineering at PHDays V
Now you can watch Positive Hack Days V on YouTube — there are dozens of lectures on practical security in Russian and English.
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July 22, 2015
The MiTM Mobile Contest: GSM Network Down at PHDays V
The MiTM Mobile contest was held at PHDays for the first time, and it let the participants realize how easily an attacker can conduct the above-mentioned attacks
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July 10, 2015
Hot Cyberwar. Hackers and Missile Launchers
The most spectacular contest during PHDays V was the one organized by Advantech. The contest's participants must gain control over an industrial system that
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July 8, 2015
Writeup: Competitive Intelligence Contest at PHDays V
This year among the participants of Competitive Intelligence were not only the contest’s usual fans but also CTF teams, so we adjusted difficulty levels accordingly.
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June 29, 2015
Best Reverser Write-Up: Analyzing Uncommon Firmware
While developing tasks for PHDays’ contest in reverse engineering, we had a purpose of replicating real problems that RE specialists might face.
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June 11, 2015
Digital Substation Takeover: Contest Overview
Digital Substation Takeover, presented by iGRIDS, was held at PHDays V.
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June 5, 2015
How They Hacked Internet Banking at PHDays V
During Positive Hack Days V, which was held on May 26 and 27 in Moscow, the $natch competition was organized again. It consisted of two rounds.
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June 3, 2015
WAF Bypass at Positive Hack Days V
As it did last year, the PHDays forum on information security hosted WAF Bypass this year as well. The contest's participants tried to bypass the protection of PT Application Firewall, Positive Technologies' product.
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June 3, 2015
PHDays V Highlights: Signs of GSM Interception, High Time to Hack Wi-Fi, Future of Encryption
Technological singularity is expected in 15 years at best, but Positive Hack Days transition is happening right now.
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May 29, 2015
PHDays V. Day One: How to Intercept SMS and Hack Satellite
Positive Hack Days launched on May 26, and on the very first day, cybersecurity experts demonstrated various techniques that are used to hack ATMs, online banking systems, mobile carriers' networks, energy, transport, and industrial companies.
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May 25, 2015
Making Money on Cyberwar
It is well known that insider info about ups and downs of large corporations, if gained in time and played right, can earn you millions on the stock market.
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May 20, 2015
Rock Bands, Artists and Cyberhybrids at PHDays V
PHDays, an international forum on practical security held on May 26-27, continues to attract an ever increasing audience including many from the arts including musicians, artists, retrofuturists, and writers.
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May 19, 2015
Schneider Electric Thanks the Winner of the Positive Hack Days Hacker Contest
Early April, Schneider Electric has released several updates and patches fixing vulnerabilities in the software used for creating SCADA and HMI systems at nuclear power plants, chemical plants and other critical units.
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May 18, 2015
PHDays V Contest Program Published
Positive Hack Days V will take place at WTC on May 26-27.
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April 29, 2015
PHDays V: How to Create Your Own Shodan, Find ROP Shellcodes, and Automate Reverse Engineering
The fifth Positive Hack Days international forum on practical security will take place in Moscow World Trade Center on May 26-27.
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February 25, 2015
What's New in the PHDays Program: supercomputer protection, iOS security, exploit selling
The first stage of Call for Papers has finished recently and we'd like to announce another batch of reports that will be presented on May 26 and 27 at PHDays V
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February 24, 2015
PHDays V: Encryption Standards, M&A in Yandex and Chemical Attacks
Early December was marked with Call for Papers opened for everyone willing to speak at Positive Hack Days V. Later we announced the first speakers introducing John Matherly, the creator of Shodan, John Bambenek, a cyber detective, and Chris Hadnagy, a professional social engineer.
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December 23, 2014
Tickets for PHDays V Now Available
Ticket sales for the forum on practical information security Positive Hack Days V will start on Wednesday, December 23.
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December 3, 2014
CFP is open
Positive Hack Days V, the international forum on practical information security, opens Call for Papers on December 3.
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November 26, 2014
Positive Hack Days V: entering a singularity
The fifth Positive Hack Days international forum on practical information security will take place in World Trade Center Moscow on May 26 and 27, 2015.
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July 25, 2014
Videos of Reports and Presentations from PHDays IV are Now Available for Download!
Present-day citizens spend tons of time in public transport. Why not to use these tedious minutes for self-education?
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July 17, 2014
The Competitive Intelligence Contest’s Outcome
Competitive Intelligence became one of the most popular online contests at Positive Hack Days, the international forum on practical security.
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July 16, 2014
WAF Bypass Results
This year, the visitors of the Positive Hack Days Forum could have a shot at bypassing the PT Application Firewall in the contest called WAF Bypass.
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July 16, 2014
Hash Runner Results
Recently we published the review of Hash Runner tasks in our blog.
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June 23, 2014
Survive Hacking at PHDays. Cyber Threats of a Common Apartment
Items and devices we use are becoming more and more convenient. Today, we have internet connection in our cars and even in certain kinds of microwaves and fridges.
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June 19, 2014
PHDays IV CTF: How It Was
Positive Hack Days IV, which was held on May 21 and 22, traditionally hosted a CTF contest.
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June 16, 2014
Smart City Hacked at PHDays IV
The Critical Infrastructure Attack (CIA) contest at Positive Hack Days IV has shown for the second time how weak critical infrastructure systems can be in terms of security.
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June 2, 2014
Positive Hack Days IV: There are Doors that should be Opened Carefully
The famous quote of Friedrich Nietzsche about an abyss that gazes into you became the motto of the PHDays IV forum on practical security.
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May 30, 2014
Best Reports at PHDays IV: Surveillance, Hacking and Nation-Specific Cyberwar
Big conferences with multiple reports delivered at once seem to cooperate with the Murphy's Law — the most interesting (personally to you) sections have the same schedule time.
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May 26, 2014
Day Two at PHDays IV: Most Notable Quotes
With the heart in the middle of Moscow, the grand forum on practical information security Positive Hack Days IV walked around the planet and reached its finale.
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May 23, 2014
The First Day of PHDays IV: From Critical Infrastructure to Clip Thinking
The international forum on practical security Positive Hack Days IV launched on May 21 in Moscow.
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May 22, 2014
The $natch Contest Is Over
The $natch contest took place during Positive Hack Days IV. Contestants needed to detect vulnerabilities in remote banking systems.
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May 21, 2014
Any Participant Can Speak at PHDays
For the first time at Positive Hack Days an open-mic session will be held.
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May 20, 2014
$natch at PHDays — E-banking System to Be Hacked is Available for Download
Do you want to try what it’s like to be a hacker stealing money from bank accounts?
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May 19, 2014
Critical Infrastructure Attack. How to Hack a Whole City
We've heard a lot about industrial control systems that help reduce traffic congestions, save electricity and water, make production processes more efficient....
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May 16, 2014
Government and Business Resistance to New Cyberthreats The PHDays IV Business Program
The security of critical infrastructures, prospects for investment in information security, the expediency of increasing control over the Internet, recent trends of the area of telecommunications, the security of web applications and remote banking systems, new products of the IS market—these are the main topics of the Positive Hack Days IV forum that will be held on May 21 and 22 this year.
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May 14, 2014
Cyberpunk Devourers Night
Many occupations are described in literature and cinemas. There are songs about pilots and scientists, films about sailors and doctors, novels about killers and bankers. However, millions of coders and other computer specialists get undeservedly little attention in the mass culture.
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May 14, 2014
Hackspaces from Four Different Countries Join PHDays Everywhere
Specialists in information security, scientists, politicians and businessmen will soon meet up in Moscow at the international forum Positive Hack Days.
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May 14, 2014
Hackspaces from Four Different Countries Join PHDays Everywhere
Specialists in information security, scientists, politicians and businessmen will soon meet up in Moscow at the international forum Positive Hack Days.
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April 25, 2014
Experts and Hackers to Land on the PHDays Field How to fabricate a key, crack a browser, escape from a smart home
Why the Internet of things is a threat to national security? What is impressioning?
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April 22, 2014
Young School Finalists Defined
The Young School competition is being held for the third time in a row.
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April 15, 2014
PHDays IV Competitive Program
There is little time left before the beginning of PHDays.
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April 2, 2014
A Surprise Performance at PHDays
Since the topics to be discussed at Positive Hack Days IV are far beyond just technical issues, there's a surprise in store for participants of the forum.
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March 20, 2014
How to Hack Gmail and WordPress and Spy through TV
Hacking emails of authoritative users is usually accompanied by debates about the identity of such email correspondence that became available on the Internet.
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March 3, 2014
Discount PHDays IV Tickets are Available till March 16
We have great news! You can get tickets to the PHDays IV forum at the Early Birds discount until March 16, 2014.
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February 26, 2014
PHDays IV Topics
How can you create a virus or a botnet for Android? What else do you get when you buy a hard disk drive at an eBay auction?
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February 13, 2014
Only Two Weeks Left to Apply for PHDays Young School
Due to popular demand we have decided to extend the application deadline for the information security competition of young scientists.
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January 30, 2014
Hackers from All Over the World Competed to Join PHDays IV CTF
PHDays CTF Quals, an information security competition, took place from 12 p.m. on January 25 to 12 p.m. on January 27, with teams competing for the entire 48 hours.
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January 20, 2014
PHDays CTF Quals Rules
There is not much time left until PHDays IV CTF Quals, and it's time to reveal the rules and game mechanics.
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December 16, 2013
Want to Join PHDays IV CTF? Take Part in CTF Quals!
PHDays IV is coming! Tickets for the forum are available, Call for Papers is in progress, acceptance of reports for the Young School competition has started.
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December 12, 2013
Ticket Sales: Positive Hack Days IV
Tickets for PHDays IV are now available.
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December 9, 2013
PHDays IV Young School Begins
The third PHDays Young School competition of research from emerging scientists in information security will be held at Positive Hack Days IV in 2014.
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November 26, 2013
How to Survive in the Cyberspace? Positive Hack Days IV: Searching for a New Formula
The international forum on practical security Positive Hack Days IV will take place on May 21 and 22, 2014 in the Digital October Center.
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November 15, 2013
Choo Choo Pwn Surprised Koreans and Helped Find a Zero-Day Vulnerability
Experts from among the PHDays organizers brought the railway competition Choo Choo Pwn to Power of Community 2013, a friendly (and the largest in East Asia) information security conference held in Seoul.
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June 13, 2013
17 Hackspaces From 7 Countries Joined PHDays III
To take part in the PHDays forum, local information security specialists gathered together in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Birzeit (Palestine), Cairo (Egypt), Kollam (India)...
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June 11, 2013
A Researcher from Tomsk Wins PHDays III Young School
The results of PHDays III Young School, a national information security competition of young scientists, are known. The program committee considered a great number of applications and selected four best works, the authors of which spoke at PHDays in front of leading IS specialists from all over the world.
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June 6, 2013
PHDays III CTF: Levart D’Errorim
The Positive Hack Days forum, which was held on May 23 and 24, traditionally hosted a CTF contest. During two days, ten teams from six countries beat back attacks and hacked rivals' networks.
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May 30, 2013
Positive Hack Days III is Over
The information security forum PHDays III attracted more than 2,000 participants from Germany, India, Spain, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, USA, Japan, and other countries. They are leading information security experts, hackers, bloggers, pressmen, politicians, and government representatives.
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May 30, 2013
ATM Hacked at PHDays III
Foreign experts in physical information security discovered and demonstrated vulnerabilities in bank equipment at the Positive Hack Days III forum, which was held on May 23 and 24 in Moscow. The contest's ATM contained vulnerabilities, one of which gave access to servicing area without a key. The other vulnerability allowed switching the machine into service mode using a common paper clip.
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May 28, 2013
Students Found SCADA Vulnerabilities at PHDays
Mikhail Elizarov, a first year student of the North-Caucasus Federal University (Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory), and Arseny Levshin, a student from Minsk, won the contest related to SCADA security assessment, which took place as part of the international forum Positive Hack Days III.
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May 27, 2013
A Specialist from Perm Wins the Network Infrastructure Security Analysis Contest at PHDays
The security of network infrastructure is the most important task in business.
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May 24, 2013
A Student Hacks a Remote Banking System at PHDays
The security of banking systems became one of the key topics at Positive Hack Days III. Discussions, contests and hands-on labs on banking systems were held during the forum.
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May 23, 2013
The First Day of PHDays Comes to an End
Positive Hack Days III, an international forum on practical information security, has started today, on May 23 in the WTC Moscow. Among the participants are IS experts, hackers, politicians and representatives of the Internet community from every corner of the world.
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May 21, 2013
Positive Hack Days III Online Competitions
If, for some reason, you will not be able to visit the venue of Positive Hack Days on May 23 and 24, this doesn’t mean you should miss the opportunity to participate. Thanks to the competition program of the forum, anyone will have a chance to compete with contestants from all over the world during exciting online Positive Hack Days III challenges.
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May 21, 2013
Theory, Practice, and Minimum Ceremonies — PHDays III Program Published
The international forum on information security Positive Hack Days III will start in two days! Today you have a possibility to learn the final event program, which consists, as it was last year, of two parts — the conference and hacking contests.
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May 20, 2013
The NetHack Qualifying Round Ends
For a week, from May 7 to 15, hackers from all over the world were engaged in a fierce struggle during the NetHack competition. The participants needed to demonstrate their skills in obtaining control over network infrastructure via exploiting misconfiguration of the equipment.
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May 15, 2013
HackQuest is Completed. Best Reverser is Ready to Start
The epic hacking competition PHDays HackQuest has come to an end. The competition was organized by ONsec_Lab. It lasted from May 1 to 13 and drew 1441 participants, 112 of them solved at least one task.
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May 14, 2013
New Reports at PHDays III: From ICS Security, to the Analysis of Java 0-day Exploits
How to build your own Stuxnet? Are security systems safe? Is it easy to watch the people and why physical security is the basis of any kind of security? Today we would like to bring to you attention some of more than 30 reports of the main technical program of Positive Hack Days III.
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May 13, 2013
Author of Hydra, Amap and SuSEFirewall Speaks at PHDays
Marc "van Hauser" Heuse, a well-known information security researcher, will be one of the key speakers at Positive Hack Days III.
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May 8, 2013
NetHack: Win Invitation to PHDays!
The Positive Hack Days III program promises to be quite rich: reports, hands-on labs of the world leading experts, the CTF hacking battle, the Young School finalists’ presentations and a great number of competitions (held both online and at the venue).
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April 30, 2013
PHDays III Contests Program: Hacking ATM and SCADA, Passing the Labyrinth
The participants of Positive Hack Days, which will be held in Moscow on May 23-24, will hear the reports of well-known experts in information security, partake in hands-on labs, support a CTF team — and this is not all there is to it.
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April 29, 2013
PHDays III Young School Finalists are Known
For the second year in a row, we hold the competition in order to find young and talented specialists in information security who will be able to raise the science level of the country of the famous Russian hackers.
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April 8, 2013
Positive Hack Days III — Ticket Sale Has Started
Ticket sale for the international forum on practical security PHDays III started on Monday, April 8.
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March 18, 2013
PHDays III Will Take Place in World Trade Center Moscow
The third international forum on practical security Positive Hack Days will take place on May 23-24 in the Moscow World Trade Center, one of the main platforms of the country
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March 4, 2013
PHDays III Call For Papers: The Latest Intelligence Data on either side of a fence
The first wave of the Call for Papers has already yielded its results
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February 28, 2013
Last Two Weeks to Take Part in PHDays Young School!
By popular demand, we increase the time frame for young scientists in information security to send in the reports and take part in the contest
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December 18, 2012
PHDays CTF Quals — 494 Teams from 30 Countries and PPP Triumph
This year PHDays CTF Quals, information security competition, has become the most large-scale over its history...
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December 12, 2012
Three Days Left Before PHDAYS CTF Quals Starts
Let us remind you that PHDays CTF Quals starts on the 15th of December and will last for three days. 300 teams from more than 30 different countries of the world have already registered. You still can join!
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November 28, 2012
PHDAYS CTF Quals Hacking Competition Starts
For the attention of information security specialists, system administrators, developers — all those, who is familiar with vulnerabilities detection and is ready to demonstrate their skills in a hacking battle! PHDays CTF Quals (the qualifying stage of the PHDays CTF international information security contest) starts in December.
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October 29, 2012
Positive Hack Days III On The Way! Call For Papers Announced
Please attention! It has been finally decided to hold Positive Hack Days III. Positive Technologies, the permanent organizer of the event, has already started preparing for the third international forum on practical information security.
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August 20, 2012
PHDays CTF Over? PHDays CTF Goes On!
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July 31, 2012
'Free-of-Charge' Tariff. Hacking Coin-Operated Telephone at PHDays
Due to the fact that Positive Hack Days is a forum devoted to the issues of practical IT security, the competitive program contained competitions of practical nature (for example, a contest related to searching information hidden in the Internet and hash hacking).
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July 27, 2012
How Hackers Hacked the RFID
The prototype of modern RFID tags is an identification friend or foe (IFF) system developed by the Naval Forces of the USA in 1937. It was used to identify aircrafts as friends or foes during World War II. Nowadays the radio-frequency identification technology is widely used in offices (employees access), trading (tags on goods), transporting (subway entrance), and a lot of other spheres.
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July 26, 2012
Smartphone and Tablet Applications – Approved by Positive Technologies
Positive Technologies starts up a service related to critical mobile applications security analysis. Development of the new area is mainly aimed at effective and comprehensive security evaluation of different systems, the client part of which is more and more frequently used in handheld devices.
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July 20, 2012
PHDays 2012: Tunisian version
The Positive Hack Days Everywhere organized in Tunis on May 30, 2012, was held in the INSAT university and was open mainly for students and professional members of SecuriNets, the first security club in Tunisia, and also for the members of the Tunisian Information Security Professional Associations
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July 12, 2012
Big Shot — Hacking People at PHDays
One of the most interesting, peculiar, and amusing competitions at Positive Hack Days 2012 was Big Shot, which challenged the participants’ skills of social engineering.
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July 10, 2012
Forgot Your Password? Hash Hacking at PHDays 2012
An unknown password is “made” according to the following recipe: extract minced information (hash) from cookies, database dump or another resource and process it with various tools until you get the combination of symbols you need.
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July 2, 2012
Once Upon a Time in Vladivostok, or PHDays 2012
For May 30 and 31, the city of students, which is a common nickname of Vladivostok, turned into one of the biggest regional platforms of Positive Hack Days 2012
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June 27, 2012
Show Me the Money! The $natch Competition at PHDays 2012
How to Protect Money, a section of PHDays 2012 dedicated to banking issues, ended like a good old thriller
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June 20, 2012
The Positive Education Program To Help Professors Coach Future Specialists
Lack of specialists is the major problem that the Russian information security market is facing today.
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June 20, 2012
Russians Took All Places on the Medal Stand of HackQuest Online 2012
Following PHDays 2012, an international forum on practical security issues, fascinating HackQuest Online 2012 came to an end.
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June 18, 2012
Positive Hack Days CTF 2012, or Hackmageddon
In the 19th century, carefree people who used to treat migraine with craniotomy, cough, with heroine, and other illnesses, with mercury, came to believe in the almighty Genetics.
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June 9, 2012
Video of Reports from PHDays 2012
Videos of reports and hands-on-labs taken place at Positive Hack Days 2012 have been released.
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June 6, 2012
Positive Hack Days 2012 Is Over: Hackers Cracked the Planet
Last days of May Moscow was hosting Positive Hack Days 2012, an international security forum for specialists in practical information security organized by Positive Technologies. During the day
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June 4, 2012
Apple iPhone, Windows XP, And FreeBSD Hacked at PHDays 2012, Moscow
At Positive Hack Days 2012, an international forum on practical information security, the participants of the Hack2own competition demonstratively hacked Apple iPhone 4S and a popular operating system Windows XP. In addition, the CTF contestants
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May 31, 2012
PHDays 2012: Day One
More than 1000 guests gathered in technocentre Digital October on the first day of Positive Hack Days international forum on practical security organized by Positive Technologies. The place was bursting at the seams: hackers, government and business representatives, information security experts, scientists, and students socialized, attended reports, studied and taught.
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May 27, 2012
Battle for Invitation Cards is Over
Less than a week is left until the information security forum Positive Hack Days 2012, and until today everybody who wanted to visit this event had a chance to win an invitation card in such contests as Blow Up the Town and Hackers vs. Forensics.
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May 18, 2012
Rules of the Hack2Own Competition at PHDays 2012
There’s little time left before Positive Hack Days 2012. Online competitions, which raffle off invitations to the forum, are in full swing. Yet, the most interesting events will happen at the forum’s platform in the Digital October Center. A legendary competition Hack2Own will be one of the highlights of the program.
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May 10, 2012
Our contribution to the cyber security of Japan
NHK (Japan broadcasting corporation), one of the largest TV companies in the world, has published an explicit article about the Positive Hack Days forum opening on May 30, 2012.
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April 26, 2012
PHDays Young School Finalists Decided
Got tired of waiting for new Brins and Kasperskys in Russia? Frankly speaking, we did. To find out the state of academic IT-security science in Russia, we "put out a bulletin" for young scientists who make researches in this field. The competition started a couple of months before the PHDays. This week, the finalists have been decided.
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April 25, 2012
Registration for PHDays starts May 14, at midday
Please, note: the number of places is limited. Set your reminders for May's second Tuesdays, 12:00 am. The faster you get registered, the higher are your chances to be among the invitees.
PHDays will give you an opportunity to hack anything you see, chat with Bruce Schneier, and wash down failures with free tequila.
The registration procedure will be published soon. Stay tuned!
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April 25, 2012
The Author of John the Ripper Will Speak at PHDays 2012
In 1996, Alexander Peslyak (aka Solar Designer) created a program called John the Ripper. This cross-platform utility designed to analyze password strength has become one of the top 10 popular software in the field of information security, while the program's site has been visited by 15 million people.
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April 12, 2012
New Reports at PHDays 2012
New speakers who have recently joined PHDays 2012 will speak of SAP hacking, vulnerabilities in smart cards and Ukrainian style cyber security and answer most interesting questions. For example, how many stadiums can be built for the money stolen from Russian remote banking systems? Or what are the real motives that stand behind the cruel war banks started to fight against hackers?
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March 26, 2012
"The Georgian" botnet by Canadian Pierre-Marc Bureau. A new master-class for PHDays.
Spreading over the world recently has been news of the "Georgian" botnet, based on Win32/Georbot, which steals secret documents and also captures audio and video via web-cameras.
It will be possible to learn how Win32/Georbot works, and how to control or neutralize it, in our forum Positive Hack Days on 30 and 31 May. Pierre-Marc Bureau , the leading engineer of the virus laboratory ESET, an expert on cyberwar and cyberespionage, will hold the world's first "georbot master-class". -
March 6, 2012
The first reports on PHDays 2012 have been determined
Can you trust passwords on your iPhone or iPad?
Dmitry Skliarov, in his reports "Secure Password Managers" and "Military-Grade Encryption for smartphones: Is it really serious?" presents the results of the analysis of several programs to protect passwords and data for the Apple iOS. Dmitry is Information Security Analyst at ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. and assistant professor of "Information Security" of MSTU Bauman. -
January 27, 2012
Bruce Schneier Will Speak at PHDays
A cryptography guru, world-famous expert in information security Bruce Schneier will come to Moscow for the first time. He will take part in our forum as one of the key speakers.
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December 14, 2011
The first participants of PHDays CTF 2012 have been decided!
The qualifying stage of the international competition for the protection of information, PHDays CTF Quals, has been completed. Over a period of two days, 72 teams from 17 countries fought unremittingly for the right to reach the final and to attend the main competition in May 2012.
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December 8, 2011
One day has left before the end of registration of participants for CTF Afterparty
If you want to take part in CTF Afterparty but you have not joined us yet - hurry up, the registration is closing soon! So far, it is certain that CTF Afterparty will become a battlefield for over 100 people from 18 countries. Most participants come from Russia, the USA and Australia.
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November 14, 2011
PHD CTF Quals opens up a team registration for the information security contests
December, 10-11 will see the PHD CTF Quals contest on information security organized by Russian developer company Positive Technologies. The PHD CTF Quals contest is a qualification competition for the international PHD CTF contest that will take place on May 30-31, 2012.
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October 26, 2011
In 2012, Positive Hack Days will grow twice bigger
Positive Hack Days, which took place in 2011, became a center of undivided attention of IT specialists and drew a wide response of the IT community. The organizers have already been receiving requests for participation in the next PHD, so, to handle all the requests, Positive Hack Days 2012 will grow twice bigger.
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August 25, 2011
At Positive Hack Days, specialists of the Positive Research Center presented the results of the DNS Rebinding vulnerability research.
The results helped finally reveal how the attack can be carried out in practice. The experts demonstrated new vectors for the DNS Rebinding attack, also known as AntiDNS Pinning. The vulnerability implies that a user's browser acts as a mediator between attackers and the target network. It allows attackers to conduct attacks against virtual infrastructures.
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May 31, 2011
At PHD, contestants hacked the latest version of the Safari browser for Windows.
By exploiting a 0-day vulnerability in the Apple's browser, the hackers initialized the Calculator application without user interaction.
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May 30, 2011
Results of Positive Hack Days
The Positive Hack Days forum gathered a variety of representatives of information security industry. By estimations, the forum was visited by more than 500 people, including representatives of government agencies, technical specialists, top managers in the IT industry, independent experts, and hackers.
Two programs were conducted simultaneously: a business program, which included seminars and master-classes, and a hacking contest program. The organizers sum up the preliminary results.
