CS2 hacking contest 2017 gains momentum

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The 2017 Hacking Competition is gaining momentum as the organisers seek to assist bourgeoning hackers to test their skills and go home with N.4m, reports ITRealms.

The contest powered by the Abuja-based Consultancy Support Services (CS2) Limited, is a two-day search for Nigeria’s top hackers.

The Executive Chairman of Consultancy Support Services (CS2) Limited, Alhaji Abdul-Hakeem Ajijola told ITRealms that the search for Nigeria’s top hacker is now on.

The competition trending online as #HackBossNigeria 2017 @CS2Nigeria, he disclosed, has a total of N.450.000.00 (Four and Fifty Thousand Naira) up for grabs.

As said by him, the first prize at the end of the two-day hacking competition slated for April 28 and 29, 2017, would be going home with the sum of N200,000.

Also, the second prize, CS2 chairman said, would be heading home with N150,000, while the third place winner would smile home with the sum of N100,000.

This skill testing, he said would afford participants in the competition to be noticed by potential employers.

Ajijola equally advised interested persons to register free or visit www.cs2.com.ng, this would be followed by a 30 minutes online test.

“Only invited candidates receive accommodation for 2 nights in, and reimbursement of road transport fares to, Abuja,” Ajijola said.

Further, he said, CS2 would test candidates hacking skills in five key areas including systems, mobile, networking, forensics and reporting.

“Only the best will be crowned #HackBossNigeria 2017,” Ajijola assured.

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CS2 hosts 20 Nigerians to cyber drills on new DDos threat

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Leading cyber security solution power house, the Consultancy Support Services (CS2) Limited has hosted some 20 Nigerians to a global cyber drill on the “Emergence of a New DDoS Threat,” reports ITRealms.

The newly emerging Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), ITRealms gathered reflect largely the intentional paralyzing of a computer network by flooding it with data sent simultaneously from many individual computers.

Confirming Nigeria’s participation in this global cyber drill to ITRealms, the executive chairman of CS2, Alhaji Abdul-Hakeem Ajijola, said that his team successfully hosted 20 Nigerian participants for the Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) and Cyberdrill 2017.

According to him, the session was hosted with the theme “Emergence of a New DDoS Threat.”

“Participants were drawn from a wide range of security, public service organisations and the private sector,” he said.

Ajijola explained that the exercise which commenced “22-03-2017, 2:00 AM” was held at the Penthouse, Ogun State House, Central Business District, Abuja Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

“It started with preliminary reviews at 2 am Nigeria time (GMT+1) with the actual cyber drill commencing at 3 am 22 March 2017,” he said, stressing that this is representative of real-world situations.

“Hackers don’t work regular hours,” Ajijola said, emphasizing that all assignments were completed, thus successful.

“We are pleased to note that all assignments were successfully completed,” he said.

Ajijola further told ITRealms that APCERT teams from 18 economies including Australia, Brunei Darussalam, People's Republic of China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Macao, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam) participated in the drill, and additionally with 4 CSIRTs from 4 member countries (Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria and Pakistan) of the OIC-CERT www.oic-cert.org.

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