FYI:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roger A. Grimes roger@banneretcs.com Date: May 5, 2005 1:41 AM Subject: Invitation to www.hackiis6.com To: honeypots@securityfocus.com
It's not the traditional honeypot...but it is. <grin>
Welcome to the HackIIS6.com Contest!
Starting May 2nd and going until June 8th, the server located at http://www.hackiis6.com will welcome hackers to attack it. If you can deface the web site or capture the "hidden" document, you win an X-box! Read contest rules for what does and doesn't constitute a successful hack. We've tried to be as realistic as possible in what constitutes a successful hack, and in mimicking a basic HTML and ASP.NET web site.
For the most part, almost anything reasonable constitutes a successful attack except for a massive network denial of service attack against the IIS 6 or its host provider. Not that doing a successful DoS attack wouldn't be a problem in the real world...it would be...but we aren't testing that. We want to test the security of Windows Server 2003, IIS, and other Microsoft applications. So, please, respect this one rule of the contest so everyone can have a chance at claiming the prize.
Questions and Prizes If you have questions, send an email to admin@hackiis6.com. If you want to claim a prize, send your email, with the details listed in the official rules to prizes@hackiis6.com.
Contest Summary We are going to start the contest for the first two weeks with the very basic, static HTML web site that you are now reading. Two weeks later, we'll add an ASP.NET web site and a back-end SQL server to add more flavor and give more area to attack. We started with the basic site to prove that Microsoft's Internet Information Service (IIS) and Windows Server 2003 is secure by itself. This is to satisfy the purists who thinking hacking ASP.NET is hacking an application and not the server. So, if you've got skillz in one area versus the other, you'll have a chance to try both attack types.
Once the contest stops on June 8th, we will announce the winner(s) at the upcoming June Microsoft Tech.Ed conference.
The Setup This server is running Windows Server 2003, Service Pack1, with all current publicly-released patches and hotfixes installed (we ran Windows Update and MBSA just like a real admin would do). We installed IIS 6.0. and then we followed the basic recommendations (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx) suggested by Microsoft. I added a few tweaks here and there, to put my personal mark on the site, but nothing extraordinary.
There is no non-Microsoft software involved with the exception of the host's router/firewall, which would be normal in most environments. We want to make this a test of Microsoft software.
Why a hacking contest? To have fun! Sure there will be critics who say sponsoring a hacking contest proves nothing. If the IIS server remains unbroken, it still doesn't mean that IIS is really "secure." True, and if I wasn't the contest's team leader, I'd probably be the first one to yell that out. Hacking contests rarely prove something is secure, although it only takes a single successful hack to prove something is unsecure.
So why do it? There are very few places on the Internet where hackers, good and bad, can hack legally. Windows IT Pro thought the contest would be a fun way to interact with the hacker community (they realize most hackers have good intentions) and bring some attention to Windows IT Pro (of course, they'll disavow all responsibility and blame me solely if the server gets hacked) <grin>.
So, welcome to the contest! Hack away. If the IIS server goes unhacked during the extended time period, it might not mean that IIS is "unhackable", but if it does survive the contest it might convince a few people that it is a relatively secure web server platform. After all, over 20% of the Internet relies on it, including some of the largest web sites in the world.
Happy Hacking,
Roger A. Grimes Contributing editor, Windows IT Pro Magazine
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