Hacking Competition for hackers
A piece of good news for hackers to test their skills in the hacking world legally and win prizes by government
The Tamil Nadu police have turned to teenagers to take on cybercriminals. Around 200 college students and young professionals will take part in a hackathon at the state police headquarters on Saturday and the best among them will get to assist the cops.
There’s prize money too for the winners. The first prize comes with RS 50,000 the two-second prize are worth RS 25,000 each and the three third prizes Rs 10,000 each.
State police chief J K Tripathy will hand over cyber-volunteer badges to the winners in various categories. The badges will give them access to the Rs 3.24 crore Cyber Arangam that the government has set up at IIT-M’s research park. This facility, modeled on the Kerala police’s cyber-dome in Thiruvananthapuram, is to be the nerve center of the police’s cyber-dome in Thiruvananthapuram, is to be the nerve centre of the police’s operations to root out cybercrime at a time when 48% of computer users in Chennai have faced some form of cyber threat, the highest among tier-1 cities in the country.
Additional director-general of police R Venkataraman, who heads the cybercrime wing, has envisaged the cyber-volunteers as a subsidiary unit like the Tamil Nadu Home Guard. A total of 1,348 people, including school children, had applied to take part in the hackathon. After a selection of around 200 people, including college students and professionals employed at various companies in the city, have been invited.
B Satish Kumar, a cyber hacker, hailing from Bengaluru said, “This has opened up a new pathway for ethical hacking and we can assist cops in helping people affected by cyber-attack".
The Tamil Nadu police have turned to teenagers to take on cybercriminals. Around 200 college students and young professionals will take part in a hackathon at the state police headquarters on Saturday and the best among them will get to assist the cops.
There’s prize money too for the winners. The first prize comes with RS 50,000 the two-second prize are worth RS 25,000 each and the three third prizes Rs 10,000 each.
State police chief J K Tripathy will hand over cyber-volunteer badges to the winners in various categories. The badges will give them access to the Rs 3.24 crore Cyber Arangam that the government has set up at IIT-M’s research park. This facility, modeled on the Kerala police’s cyber-dome in Thiruvananthapuram, is to be the nerve center of the police’s cyber-dome in Thiruvananthapuram, is to be the nerve centre of the police’s operations to root out cybercrime at a time when 48% of computer users in Chennai have faced some form of cyber threat, the highest among tier-1 cities in the country.
Additional director-general of police R Venkataraman, who heads the cybercrime wing, has envisaged the cyber-volunteers as a subsidiary unit like the Tamil Nadu Home Guard. A total of 1,348 people, including school children, had applied to take part in the hackathon. After a selection of around 200 people, including college students and professionals employed at various companies in the city, have been invited.
B Satish Kumar, a cyber hacker, hailing from Bengaluru said, “This has opened up a new pathway for ethical hacking and we can assist cops in helping people affected by cyber-attack".
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