Hack The Box Hacking Battlegrounds Streamed Tournament #1 - Commentated by IppSec and John Hammond
Source: YouTube · Hack The Box · published May 17, 2021 · 3:02:48
HackTheBox hosted its inaugural live Hacking Battlegrounds tournament featuring 16 elite players in an attack-and-defend format sponsored by Synack, culminating in a $7,500 prize pool. 3:11
Key Takeaways:
• Teams compete in "Cyber Mayhem" matches where they must patch vulnerabilities on their own machines while simultaneously attacking opponents to steal flags, relying heavily on speed and source code analysis. 10:18 16:59
• Top performers are fast-tracked into the Synack Red Team (SRT) program, with first place securing $2,000. 12:27
• Commentators provide live analysis of players' techniques via Discord screens, demonstrating real-world tactics like PHP deserialization and magic hash exploitation. 13:21 24:34
This tournament highlights the high-stakes nature of competitive hacking and the iterative process of learning from failures in a real-time environment.
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hello guys uh how are you greetings from hack the box i am sothy aka red runner i'm the community manager very happy to have all of you here uh today we are very excited for this it's it is our first hacking battlegrounds live tournament and we have two awesome guests uh to do this whole presentation let's start first with ipsec hey guys i'm ipsec um if you don't know who i am and you managed to find the stream first of all congratulations i have no idea how you got here maybe it's from one of many john's followers who is all the way to the right of me exactly and together we have today also john hammond we thank you very much for being our guest of honor today in order to chat in order to have fun in order to interact with everyone please all of you leave questions here in the chat um if …