Cyberwar game;NSA attacks West Point Linux/FreeBSD setup.

From an interesting article from Wire.

At the seventh annual Cyber Defense Exercise, a training event for future military IT specialists, the NSA attacked the 34 Army cadets' Linux/FreeBSD setup which was one the teams/networks participating.
As a requirement for this exercise, all networks had to be capable of e-mail, chat and other services and had to be up and running at all times despite any attacks or defensive measures

The Army cadets' Fedora core 8 webserver was attacked with SQL injections which were averted with Apache web server modules plus some tweaking of the SQL database.
A kernel-level rootkit that the NSA managed to install, was 'seen' calling home and subsequently detected with Sysinternal's security software and killed.

For the second year in a row, the Army placed first over the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and others.

Read the full story here; link.

 

interesting info
hack3rz rul3 lol

 

Very interesting.......

 

Didn't know the academies were even doing that.....thanks

 

So its like a hacking war
Who ever gets shut down first losses
and whomever lasts the longest wins?
Sounds like a lot of fun =P

 

Reminds me of this: USAF Considers Creation of Military Botnet

Kinda cool tho. I can't see the military actually recruiting hackers tho unless you let them smoke weed on base.

 

LOL....I can tell right now you've never been in the military.....