Want
to find out how much you know about secure coding? And
win prizes and recognition on the way? Check out the Microsoft
Security Shootout contest. You can register right
now (There are some cool early bird prizes!!), but the
real contest begins only on Mar 20.
What's
the contest wanna look like? From the Security Shootout
site:
Stage
I: It will start from 20th March &
end on 19th April 2006. Results to be announced on 22nd
April. Top 1000 participants will move to stage -2.
Stage 1 will have 30 objective and multiple choice
questions. Stage 1 will have negative marking. Correct
answer will be awarded 4 marks where as 1 mark will be
deducted for every wrong answer. Duration for Stage I
will be 60 minutes.
Stage
II: It will start from 22nd April and end
on 30th April 2006. The results will be announced on 2nd
May 2006. Top 100 participants will move to stage - 3.
Stage
III: It will start from 2nd May 2006 and
end on 15th may 2006. The top 10 winners will be
announced on 1st June 2006. Contestant has to secure the
code provided by Microsoft. This code will be in a
format of zip file. Contestant will download zip file,
extract it, analyze the code, and secure the code.
Contestant will have to upload this secure code. Winners
of stage III will win many attractive prizes mentioned
in prizes section.
The
top 3 and subsequently the winner will be announced
during Microsoft tech Ed in June 2006.
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