Following the successful AIRRAID and AIRRAID2 IT-Security Tournament series by ThinkSECURE, the premier technical IT-Security Certification Authority in Asia, comes AIRRAID3 that took place on the 20th October 2010 in Singapore Polytechnic.
Cyber and Digital Security are proud to announce that our student won the second and third place in the tournament. Below are a interview with one of the member of the team Tprotocols that won the third place, Sayed Hamzah Alhabshe and some pictures.
(Q) – Question
(H) – Hamzah
(Q) How was the experience at the competition like?
(H) The competition allowed the contestants to gain lots of exposure and at the same time, getting a feel of how to conduct espionage. We had also gain lots of experience from finding ways to hack into someone’s network and computer (e.g. cracking passwords). Overall the competition was enjoyable and we got to hone our skills as well.
(Q) What do you think is the factor that led your team to victory?
(H) Our team did lots of planning and research for the competition, and we also practice and hone our technical skills with our own server.
(Q) What are the strategies your team had used?
(H) Our team consists of individuals who have their own expertise (e.g. cracking password, exploiting software) and we split our job so that we can concentrate on what we are doing.
(Q) What are some of the improvement you think that could be made to help your team?
(H) We could had brought better equipment to the competition such as network card and usb network adapter and do more research prior to the competition.
(Q) How did your course Cyber & Digital Security help you in the competition? What are some of the example?
(H) Our module in ethical hacking provides us with a basis on general hacking and our networking modules help us to gain an idea what to look out for in a network system.
(Q) What advice could you give to our future representative participating in such competition?
(H) I would advise them to do background research on the competition and stock up on hardware equipment such as network card, at the same time learn lots of hacking concept(SQL injection) and hacking tools(Nmaps, Backtrack) and get familiar with them.
