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HackedThat: Breaking in to a hardened server via the back door

Accepted submission by ticho at 2016-08-27 11:03:40
Security

Earlier this summer, the team at Inversoft published a comprehensive and sophisticated guide to user data security. The guide spans from hardening servers from provisioning, up through the IP and SSH layers, and all the way to application-level techniques for password hashing, SQL injection protection, and intrusion detection. As proof that they stood behind their advice, the Inversoft team provisioned a pair of Linode hosts, a web server and database server, and gave them the hardening treatment. Inversoft offered up a fully-loaded MacBook to anyone who could break in, taunting all comers by naming the hardened web server hackthis.inversoft.com.

Game on [polynome.co].


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