WarGames.MY 2011 – Can You Hack IT?
June 20, 2011 by RuFI0 · Leave a Comment
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – WarGames.MY 2011, Malaysia’s first online capture the flag competition, aims to bring the fun of tinkering and puzzle solving back to hacking! The event will allow Malaysian ‘hackers’ to showcase their skills in a secure and contained environment and prove that they are amongst the best the country has to offer.
Organized by Hackerspace Kuala Lumpur (HSKL), a special interest group operating from Damansara Utama and sponsored by Hack In The Box (HITB) and System Defenders, the competition takes place online for a duration of 24-hours starting from 00:01 (MYT) on Saturday 2nd July and ends Sunday, 3rd July 2011 at 00:01 (MYT). The challenge will test participants in a variety of areas in IT security including reverse engineering, cryptography, network security, digital forensics, web application security and general puzzle solving.
“Competitions such as this online Capture The Flag (CTF) are excellent venues to identify individuals with the skills and the mindset of a real hacker,” said RuFI0, team leader of The Sexy Kambingz (TSK) who are co-organizers of the competition.
“In any CTF, knowing how to run automated tools or compile publicly available exploits will get you nowhere as the challenges are custom written to test participants real knowledge of specific vulnerabilities. Anyone can run tools and scripts but it takes an actual hacker to understand how a vulnerability works, how to exploit it and further more, how to fix it,” he added.
WarGames.MY 2011 also offers bonus challenges for participants to have a chance at winning complimentary training passes to this year’s HITB Security Conference (HITBSecConf2011 – Malaysia) held from the 10th – 13th of October 2011. A cash prize of RM2000, sponsored by System Defenders, also awaits this year’s competition winner.
For more information and to register to compete for WarGames.MY 2011, please see: http://wargames.my
Twitter: http://twitter.com/wargamesmy
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We have visitor
June 14, 2011 by sweemeng · Leave a Comment
Tonight we have a visitor from US, Jonas S Karlsson, which is also a co-founder of a few hackerspace including the well known Noise Bridge, and one in australia.
He is in Malaysia today and wishes to visit the space, to meetup with the local community, and he bring a friend with him from Beijing China. Anyone that is interested can join us. This is more of a casual meetup.
You can find Jonas web page on http://yesco.org/ .
p.s I also got this last minute. Sorry for the sudden event.
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GGHC Hardware: From Idea – To Prototype – To Final Product
May 4, 2011 by kakeman · Leave a Comment
During the brainstorming session, we conceived an idea of doing “The Story Box”. It’s a device with a button and an LCD display. When a user press the button, a random word is displayed on the LCD display. Simple.
Knowing that the competition requires us to use microcontroller and portable power source, we have decided to use an Arduino, powered by any 9V battery.
There are 2 options available to us:
1) Making a full blown Arduino Story Box, OR
2) Making an Arduino Shield.
We choose the latter, since Arduino of some sort are easily available. We just need a shield that can be plugged on top of an Arduino to do the job. This will also make the solution cheaper.
This translate into the following hardware specification:
16×2 Character LCD: displaying the random word.
Momentary button: the only button for user interaction.
Buzzer: acknowledging that the user has pressed the button.
I2C EEPROM: storing a list of word.
Preset 1: adjusting brightness of the LCD backlit.
Preset 2: adjusting contrast of the LCD display.
Prototype: Where the Hardwork Begins
We are divided into 3 teams: the hardware team, software team and the documentation team.
For starter, the hardware team gave the software team an LCD shield to kick start the programming effort. At the same time, the hardware teams did a quick prototyping on a breadboard.
After we were convinced that the prototype is working, we did another round of prototyping on a Protoshield.
All is well, we then started to lay out the PCB in the EAGLE Layout Editor. After a few iterations, this was what we get. Finally.
Final Product (for GGHC): By No Mean The End
Here is how The Story Box evolved: from idea, to prototype, and finally to final product for the contest.
We will not stop at here. Some members have indicated their interest in taking this further. We are very keen to see how others will use The Story Box. We very much welcome any suggestion to make this The Story Box a useful educational device.
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Electronics Friday 29/04/2011: GGHC Build Meetup #8 (Final Push)
April 29, 2011 by kakeman · Leave a Comment
This would be the last build session where we will integrate everything.
What?
- Integrate hardware and software.
- Test the “Word List Uploader”.
- Do a demo video.
When?
We are usually open as early as 4pm, with a break for dinner at around 7-8pm. And continue on till 10:30 or 11pm. If you want to come earlier, the best time is usually around 6:30 (before we go off for dinner)
Where?
Hackerspace KL
Who?
Members of Hackerspace KL.
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Electronics Friday 22/04/2011: GGHC Build Meetup #6
April 22, 2011 by kakeman · Leave a Comment
We are almost there, hardware and software. We will have some “The Story Box” tonight.
What?
- Hardware: Etch some PCBs for The Story Box
- Software: 1. Interface with I2C EEPROM. 2. Test Python based Word List Uploader.
- Target: We will have some finished “The Story Box” in our hand by tonight.
When?
We are usually open as early as 4pm, with a break for dinner at around 7-8pm. And continue on till 10:30 or 11pm. If you want to come earlier, the best time is usually around 6:30 (before we go off for dinner)
Where?
Hackerspace KL
Who?
Members of Hackerspace KL.
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Reminder: April – June Membership Fee
March 25, 2011 by spoonfork · Leave a Comment
This is a gentle reminder to all HSKL members that the membership fee for April – June is due. If you have paid up until April (meaning that you joined as a member in February), you can pay for May and June. Please be prompt in membership payment!
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Draft: House Rules
February 21, 2011 by klks · Leave a Comment
Members,
We are currently compiling the house rules for HSKL, alot of the rules are taken from other hackerspaces around the world (We took what we thought were applicable to us and compiled them into one document). Now we would now like your feedback. You can find a link to the document here. Feedback can be sent directly to any of the committee members or posted as a comment on this blog post.
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HSKL Income and Expenditure Statement – January 2011
January 31, 2011 by spoonfork · Leave a Comment
The current income and expenditure statement as of January 2011 is available here. Summary:
- Account balance is RM1162.93. This amount is not enough to cover rental for March.
- Membership count is currently 13
- We received a total donation of RM110 for the month of January (individual donations and collections from HSKL Security Meetup)
Until we get more members, HSKL will not be able to sustain itself in the long run. To pay for rental and utilities (approximately RM1500 per month), we need at least 30 members (membership fee is now RM50 per month for all).
NOTE: As an effort to be a not-for-profit organization, we are publishing our income and expenditure statement every month. Our income and expenditure statement for the year 2010 is available here. If you have any queries regarding this, please email your questions to our committee members and/or m...@hackerspace.my/kake...@hackerspace.my
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HSKL AGM Meeting Minutes
January 18, 2011 by spoonfork · Leave a Comment
Here are the meeting minutes taken during last Sunday’s AGM. 18 people attended the meeting, of which 11 are members and 7 non-members. We also managed to get 5 signups for new memberships. The highlight of the meeting was the election of new committee members:
Last year’s committee:
President – Meling Mudin
Vice President – Earl Marcus Tan
Secretary – Brian Ritchie
Treasurer – Azrin Madin
Committee Members: Niresh Singh, Amin Hamid, Jordan Lou, Leong Seng Chin
Permanent Committe Members: None
New committe members:
President – Mun Kok Ming (Kakeman)
Vice President – Leong Seng Chin (Tinker)
Secretary – Amin Hamid
Treasurer – Niresh Singh
Committee Members: Jordan Lou, Adam Giles, Moo Kok Leong, Tracey Wong
Permanent Committee Members: Earl Marcus Tan, Meling Mudin, Mun Kok Ming
The two main activities for HSKL this year will be getting sponsorships for hardware, and university roadshow.
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Slides: Security Meetup – UniPwned! – Hacking UniFi for the LOLZ
Hey guys,
The slides for last Tuesday’s presentation is now available here. Also a reminder that this Sunday is our AGM. Hope to see ya guys there!!!