At our next meeting, SIG Sec will be announcing our Red Team Competition, a computer penetration testing challenge. The event will be hosted by Brown Smith Wallace.
In this two week event, open to any S&T student, we will provide information on systems (provided by Michael Collins) that are vulnerable to cyber attacks. The goal is to gain access and figure out the weak points of a computer system. You do not need to have security experience to participate.
The first meeting is April 2nd, where we will announce the rules, and the basics of the competition. During the following two weeks, participants will be able to access the machines and points will be scored. Then, on April 16th, we will announce the winners.

There will be multiple levels of difficulty, so everyone will be able to try. Multiple prizes will be awarded.

More information to come in the next few weeks,
currently the systems we are planning (roughly listed in increasing difficulty):
• Windows XP
• Windows 2003 Server
• Ubuntu Server
• FreeBSD

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