Can you hack this ? (Hacking challenge) LEGAL

[Smolek]

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It's Wired World of Sports Week on TechTV, and most people are thinking about baseball, basketball, and other sports. But this is "The Screen Savers," so we're talking geek sports here. Since we're stuck on a theme, today's show features a good ol'-fashion game of hacker Capture the Flag.


We're challenging all hackers out there. We have a pair of computers -- a Mac OS X Macintosh and a Windows XP PC -- set up in a secret location, ready and waiting for you to hack. Both of the computers are running stock configurations with security features activated. We have not added any third-party software.


If you are up to the challenge, here's what you do:


Break into one of the computers.
Once you are in, place a plain text file on the desktop. Include your name/handle and phone number.
Don't do a denial of service attack. Anyone can do that. If you perform a DoS, we'll kick you off.

The first person to place the file on each system wins. Stay tuned near a phone, because we'll call you and talk to you on the show to find out how you won.


IP addresses

Here are the IP adresses:


Mac OS X: 64.162.36.71
Windows XP: 64.162.36.72

 

[Maleficus]

Lol, anyone who knows anything will never find out about this. I highly doubt a real hacker would be watching/surfing TechTV.

 

[jpsj82]

<< Lol, anyone who knows anything will never find out about this. I highly doubt a real hacker would be watching/surfing TechTV. >>

thats what i was thinking.

 

[Smolek]

<< Lol, anyone who knows anything will never find out about this. I highly doubt a real hacker would be watching/surfing TechTV. >>



Can you ? Well maybe someone who visits ATOT can or at least would want to try

 

[Maleficus]

Nope, i sure as hell cant im just saying i doubt some "1337 h4x0r" will be watching TechTV or even browsing ATOT

 

[Smolek]

Well if someone is smart they dont go bragging about being a hacker so you never know about some of the people here

 

[Platypus]

I just port scanned the Mac, that thing is tighter than Britney's tube tops.

 

[4WHLDFT]

well, couple things on OS X that are always installed but they may be turned off. WebDAV, appletalk (hahah thats gonna be off) TCP/IP file sharing, there is a webserver (apache) installed as well, and SSH is installed on it as well. Chances are all this stuff is off though. Bastards.

 

[Platypus]

Either the host is down, hahaha, or they are using software that blocks port pings, which is lame.

 

[nihil]

this is kinda like that mtv special that they had a few years back about "hackers". it was such a joke. some kids claimed they could take down the entire net with a few packets. any respectable hacker wouldn't want anything to do with this kind of thing.

 

[Swag1138]

I cant ping it either.


Interesting...either those IPs are wrong, or Im just an idiot.

 

[drewshin]

i think people are kicking the crap out of those addresses:

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5 20 ms 21 ms 21 ms sl-bb22-ana-3-3.sprintlink.net [144.232.1.217]
6 31 ms 31 ms 29 ms sl-bb20-sj-5-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.18.182]
7 30 ms 31 ms 29 ms sl-gw11-sj-9-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.3.138]
8 31 ms 32 ms 30 ms sl-swb-74-0.sprintlink.net [144.228.44.50]
9 31 ms 31 ms 30 ms dist1-vlan40.snfc21.pbi.net [209.232.130.123]
10 29 ms 31 ms 28 ms rback7-fe2-0.snfc21.pbi.net [206.171.134.138]
11 * * 3312 ms adsl-64-162-36-72.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.162.36.72] <<<<nice

it's an adsl line? you'd think they'd have a t1 or something.

C:\DOCUME~1\ANDREW>ping -w 4000 64.162.36.72

Pinging 64.162.36.72 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 64.162.36.72: bytes=32 time=3299ms TTL=117
Reply from 64.162.36.72: bytes=32 time=3334ms TTL=117
Reply from 64.162.36.72: bytes=32 time=3386ms TTL=117
Reply from 64.162.36.72: bytes=32 time=3294ms TTL=117

Ping statistics for 64.162.36.72:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3294ms, Maximum = 3386ms, Average = 3328ms

 

[piku]

See, this is why I stopped watching ZDTV.

 

[yakko]

They will use the lack of a hack as proof that these systems are very secure not as proof that the people who could do it don't watch their show.