Holiday Mayhem: Hacking Battlegrounds #3 ⚔️
Source: YouTube · Hack The Box · published Dec 18, 2021 · 4:36:45
Hack The Box is hosting their third live Holiday Mayhem tournament, featuring young cyber talent from around the world competing in a global "cyber olympics" 11:12-11:14. The event brings together teams from different countries who have qualified through local and continental competitions, with participants aged 15-24 12:13-12:24.
Key Takeaways:
• The tournament is sponsored by Sneak and supported by Hyper, with prizes reaching $5,000 for participants 10:56-11:08
• Matches are 20 minutes long (30 minutes for final rounds) with increasing difficulty Linux machines, using attack-defense format 17:51-18:12
• The stream features commentary from cybersecurity personalities including ipsec and John Hammond as they watch the Greece vs. Italy match 7:24-8:05
• During the Greece vs. Italy match, Greek player "suspect" successfully exploited a Fuel CMS vulnerability to gain access and submit flags 28:52-35:34
• Greece ultimately won against Italy in their match, with Netherlands defeating Australia in another completed match 51:20-51:57
The tournament showcases Hack The Box's mission to make cybersecurity training accessible globally, allowing talented young people to compete regardless of location 13:48-14:02.
Sources:
- 7:24-8:05 Introduction of hosts and tournament overview
- 11:12-11:14 Description of the "cyber olympics" with global teams
- 12:13-12:24 Age requirements and qualif
Generate CPE Credits
Generate a professional CPE document from this video's transcript.
Estimated credit: 2 CPE hours
Estimate uses the video runtime (1 hour ≈ 1 CPE, rounded to the nearest 0.5, minimum 0.5, maximum 2.0). The final amount can be lower after review, never higher.
Topic: Cybersecurity. Commonly maps to: Security and Risk Management, Security Operations. Exact CISSP domains are assigned during generation.
Free account. One generation at a time, with a daily limit.
CPEBuddy is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by ISC2, ISACA, or any certification body. Exports are formatted for common CPE submissions; acceptance is at your certification body's discretion.
Transcript Preview
First 800 characters of the transcript
okay go hello how are you greetings from hack the box again we are here for another tournament we couldn't be happier nor more excited that we are hosting the third live battlegrounds event with us today we have the only one and only ipsec the one that does again a face reveal for these things thank you so much and of course the edsiran of the hackers the the hacker of our hearts the one that is in with us to this whole project of attack defense john hammond the original red teamer how are you john what are you doing i'm doing well hello everyone awesome super happy to be here with you this is going to be a ton of fun as it always is yeah and something funny about like the start of this event john got on stream like 15 minutes ago i was like oh john um we accidentally just wore the same ho…