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Friends
Preparation for ClubHack2010 has begun. This is our 4th year and we have planned to make it big this time.

a) Keynote – This year we are honored to have Bruce Schneier as our keynote speaker

b) Malcon – ClubHack2010 will host the finals of http://malcon.org

We’ll add more news during our preparation so keep an eye on http://clubhack.com/2010

I’m glad to announce the re-launch of http://clubhack.com as a complete new portal now.

Sections of this new website includes

• News Section – This section will be about latest news from hacking/security world. This will be sub-divided in “Tools News”, “Attack News”, “General News”. We’ll add more in future
• Article Sections – This section will hold articles from contributors. Again these will be sub-divided into appropriate categories.
• Magazine Section – Primarily this will be link to our magazine site http://chmag.in
• Bookstore – A place form where you can buy security books online.
• Gallery Section - A collection of all photographs from previous events. This will hold all future events also
• Events Section – A place to hold information about past and future events
• Additionally we’ll be linking to all other projects and websites we have under the umbrella of ClubHack

On the right side of the website, you can find a lot of links to our social networks. Follow us on twitter, catch us on facebook and show your love wherever you’d like to

How to be a part of the initiative

If you want to be an author on the new website & would like to contribute in any possible way (even if its not on the site as of now), please get in touch with us. We’ll guide and facilitate you for the same. Write to us at info@clubhack.com

Thanks & Happy Hacking

Rohit Srivsatwa

Ladies & Gentleman, Hackers & Geeks, Nerds & Newbies.

In India we were waiting to see any ‘hacking’ magazine to happen and the wait was getting little longer. So finally ClubHack decided to come out with its own 1st  Indian “Hacking” Magazine called CHmag. We at ClubHack are very much excited about the magazine and this fits into our main objective of making hacking and information security a common sense for a common man. We hope to add a lot of sections in future, all we need is input from you on what would you like to see in your magazine Moving further we need a lot of help form the whole information security community of the country to make this a success

You think you are a uber hacker, You think you can hack into web servers, We challenge you

Don’t just brag about your skills, come and show some real muscle power  here.

ClubHack announces a live webhacking contest WebWarIII

Agenda

This is a hacking challenge focussed on web applications and challenges both hackers as well as coders. Each team gets a Ubuntu VM with a vulnerable Java application. The team gets about an hour to go through the application to identifiy vulnerabilities in the code and make appropriate code changes to fix these issues.

After an hour the IP addresses of each team’s VM is made available to other users. At this point the teams access the applications of the other teams and hunt for vulnerabilities in them.

Positive points are awarded for each vulnerability that a team identifies on other’s application. Negative points are awarded for each vulnerabilty that is discovered on the team’s application.

The team with the most number of points at the end, win.

Points can vary based on the complexity of the vulnerability.

Notes to participants:

1. All participants must carry their own laptops with VM Ware server/player installed on them.
2. The Ubuntu VM image provided by us comes with NetBeans IDE loaded.
3. Participants should bring their own set of web hacking tools.
4. Internet connection MIGHT NOT be available on this game network, so be ready accordingly.
5. Keep this game on virtual world, the temptation might rise but still don’t take this to fist fight.
6. DO NOT USE THE TRICKS LEARNT HERE ON ANY REAL WORLD WEB SERVER/WEBSITE

Website: http://clubhack.com/2009/webwar3

ClubHack is very happy & excited with the new feather in its cap.

ClubHack2009 will now be extended to third day where on last day (i.e. 7th Dec 2009) “ClubHack”, “City University, London” and “UK Science and Innovation Network, British High Commission in India” will jointly host a roundtable conference on Indo-UK cyber security issues.

In this roundtable conference, eminent personalities from different field of information security of both the countries will come face to face and discuss the issues & challenges faced by both the countries.

As an output of the conference, projects in the information security domain will be identified which can help both the nations and further funding of such identified projects will be arranged.

This roundable conference is supported by IIM Ahmedabad

Come be a part of the Hack…

ClubHack is glad to announce that on the first day of 3rd annual hackers’ convention in 2009, team Matriux will launch their first ever public version of #matriux (code named Lithium).

Matriux is a complete home grown live bootable (& installable) security distro targeted  towards security, penetration testing, high level network penetration, forensic and crime investigation.

For more information & list of tools, please see http://www.matriux.com/

Hi All
As a tradition, ClubHack uses witty & creative posters during the event for awareness. these posters are generaly made to create awareness about information security and cyber crime.

Here are few samples

To continue the tradition and take it level ahead, this year ClubHack has planned to create posters and publish them in public domain for people to download and use it wherever they want. This will make sure the awareness is spread.

How to participate in the contest
To participate in contest, all you have to do is think creative, come up with a witty idea to spread cyber security awareness and create a poster out of it.

Guidelines

1. Try making it as original as possible
2. Should be creative & witty to catch attention
3. Theme should be information security awareness
4. Resolution should be 300dpi
5. Preferred size : 3ft by 5 ft (vertical)
6. Any other size also accepted
7. Source file submission is mandatory [.PSD etc]

Submission

1. submit your entries/queries to info@clubhack.com
2. Last date of submission is 30th October 2009 (till midnight IST)
3. submit only JPG/PNG/SVG before deadline for evaluation
4. winners of pre-qualification round will be required to submit the source on or before decided date

Evaluation

1. Pre-qualification round will be done by team ClubHack to eliminate offensive and other below standard entires
2. Final evaluation will be done by public voting online.

Terms & Conditions

1. All entries will be property of ClubHack
2. Same will/may be used by ClubHack for awareness campaigns and free online distribution
3. All entries will be used with proper attribution
4. You will agree to grant ClubHack a perpetual and unlimited licence to use the poster designed by you for educational, awareness creation and other purposes.
5. You will agree to indemnify ClubHack in case your design infringes upon anyone’s intellectual property or other rights.

Prizes

1. First Prize
   • 2 free entry tickets to ClubHack2009
   • 2 Free ClubHack T-Shirts
   • $75 Google adwords starting credit
2. Second Prize
   • 1 free entry ticket to ClubHack2009
   • 1 Free ClubHack T-shirt
3. Third Prize
   • 1 Free ClubHack T-shirt

Here we are with the preparation of 3rd episode of ClubHack, India’s own International Hackers’ Convention.

On the eve of “Indian Independence Day” ClubHack is pleased to  announce the opening of CFP for ClubHack2009.

We are expecting good deep knowledge technical  presentations/demonstrations on topics from the world of Information  Security.

These presentations are expected to be of 40 minutes each. The  schedule time for each presenter would be 50 minutes out of which 40 minutes are for the presentation & 10 for the question-answer sessions. We’d request you to submit the papers keeping the time  constraint in mind.

For indicative list of topics and more information, please visit
http://clubhack.com/2009/CFP

Few funny quotes from the graffiti of ClubHack2008

# Universal truth: You love some1 & u marry sumone else, d one whom you marry becomes your wife/husband and da one you loved becomes da password of you id – abhijeet

# Ethical hacking is great but i dont know what ethical means….(signature starts with B, name unclear)

# PIng me baby 1 more time – (signature unclear, two laptops shown with adhoc connection)

# Promises and passwords (and law!) are meant to be broken!! – (signature unclear)

# Everyone please use WEP and help me get free access to internet !! – anon

# My password is Hello123, But you don’t know my username – Foog^s