Cylant Technology announces its "0wn this box" challenge

Bend, Oregon, May 1, 2001. Cylant Technology
announces its "0wn this box" challenge. As a
demonstration of its behavioral analysis approach
to the field of security, Cylant invites hackers
and crackers alike to attempt a root compromise
of victim.cylant.com. The first person to
successfully "0wn" victim will have the server
shipped to them.

Victim is configured to represent the worst
possible system configuration from a security
standpoint. It is running several services
that have known vulnerabilities. However,
victim is only supposed to be a web server.
Victim has been calibrated as a web server using
CylantSecure. CylantSecure is victim's first,
last and only line of defense.

"Victim is our way of saying that you don't have
to have your systems vulnerable to the latest
and greatest attack", says Scott Wimer, VP of
Business Development at Cylant. "Nearly all
software has vulnerabilities; most of them just
happen to be unknown. Victim simply has more
than most administrators would feel comfortable
with", he says.

The web site victim.cylant.com
lists the various services running on victim,
since "doorknob attacks" are highly unlikely
to succeed. Details of the challenge are also
available there.