Microsoft contest hacked and defaced
More fun than writing in .net
MICROSOFT PUT ON a week-long .net programming contest it called 'DevSta' looking for "star developers" in Australia as a follow-on to its annual 'Tech Ed' event down under. It didn't garner much of a turnout, except for a couple of hackers who defaced contest entries.
The theme of the competition was to somehow use 'new school' technologies, meaning the Vole's current programming languages, to develop submissions having 'old school' charm, whatever that is.
As of yesterday, 19 hours before the contest ended, there were few entries, and what few that were submitted appeared fairly lame – a couple of on-screen calculators (yawn), a supposedly 'secure' trash bin, an old-fashioned green-screen terminal interface for Twitter, as well as .net clones of the ancient games Pong and Missile Command (snore).
A group of apparently Turkish hackers and a graffiti 'artiste' called Ov3rlord seemed to have some fun though, with practical demonstrations of Microsoft's software insecurities.
Microsoft has apparently removed the hacked contest entries from its competition website overnight, but screen shots are preserved here.
It was more entertaining for these hackers than writing a Microsoft DOS emulator in .net, we reckon. µ
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Poor journalism
Perhaps time to get your facts right:The site was not "hacked" and there was no "demonstration of Microsoft's software insecurities". A couple of children with too much time on their hands posted some garbage submissions. Microsoft responded by removing them. Nothing more. Nothing less.
This kind of thing happens on ten's of thousands of public forums every day.
Maybe I should go over to your forums and "hack them" for you - I could write a bunch of "hacked by xyz" comments - then maybe I'd be a "hacker" ?
(Oh yes, you might want to fix the scripting error at the top of your page too - you are losing valuable banner revenue!)..
Not quite
Seems they just entered bullshot in the contest entry form and it were just defacing posts like so many forums have and not hacks at all, pathetic really, and now sites like the inq gave them attention too :/Seems the only news item is that aussie MS thinks you don't have to moderate stuff.
quality
the inquirer used to be for me a role model and a reference.it is now like a gossip magazine, posting trash without any truth or interest to the human race
i keep on coming here to see if things go back to what they were, I'm about tho give up...
we have to raise the standarts here, for lies we have the tv already.