NeoQUEST-2014: registration is announced open

Hi, Habr! Surely, the bright and dynamic Olympiad, taking place in Sochi, has ignited in many of you the spirit of competition, the thirst for victory and the desire to somehow prove yourself. We offer a "computer" option, namely, the next stage of the annual hacker competition NeoQUEST-2014! Already on February 24, the online tour NeoQUEST-2014 starts, and registration is open here .



Like last year, the best participants of the online tour will go on an in-person tour, a victory in which will bring the best of the best trips to one of the international hacker conferences, at the choice of the participant! The winner of last year’s NeoQUEST, AVictor, who had chosen to go to Amsterdam for the RSA conference , had a great time there and, fortunately, did not experience the full “charm” of Hurricane St. Jude , returning alive, healthy and contented!



About what awaits the participants NeoQUEST-2014 - under the cut!

That the coming year?

NeoQUEST is a cybersecurity competition for individual participants. It is a little about tasks for last years in articles of our blog (for example, here and here ). This year, you will find a variety of tasks from many areas of cybersecurity. Some tasks are rooted in the theoretical aspects of cryptography, others allow you to look at reverse engineering from an interesting side. Let's not ignore the topic of network security and, of course, we will have to sweat over the task of virtualization, which will “acquaint” participants with the memory device in virtual machines. And the unexpected story of the development of events will add a special mystery to the tasks ...

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The legend of the online tour NeoQUEST-2014 is shrouded in darkness, it smells of "rubber" and beckons with light at the end of the tunnel. This, of course, is about the St. Petersburg metro. Now, if you had the opportunity to make a unique tour of the night metro of St. Petersburg, with the possibility of descending into the tunnel, would you use this opportunity? Firmly answered: "Yes!" Waiting for the secrets of the St. Petersburg subway, dark tunnels, which can lead to no one where, and silence, broken only by the sounds of steps ...







All tasks can be completed in any order, and, as in the past year, points for the completed task are awarded in accordance with the dynamic scale: the more participants passed the task, the less points will be awarded for it, and vice versa. Also, the earlier the participant passed the task - the more points he gets!



The best participants on the results of the online tour will converge with each other in a one-day virtual fight of the face-to-face tour NeoQUEST-2014, which will be held in St. Petersburg during the white nights! And everyone within the framework of the in-person NeoQUEST-2014 (as in the past year) will be able not only to watch the “battle”, but also to take part in various cybersecurity contests, win funny prizes, so desired for everyone who does not think of himself without a computer and also listen to reports covering the latest trends in the field of information security, learn a lot of new things, communicate with colleagues and just have a good time!



As always, especially distinguished participants and winners of the online tour, in addition to passing on a full-time tour, await gifts - small and large! In addition, successful participation in NeoQUEST is taken into account when entering graduate school and magistracy at the Cyber ​​Security Department of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. So we are waiting for inspired professionals who are determined to win!

The next station is NeoQUEST!

For all questions related to NeoQUEST, write to support@neoquest.ru. Follow the quest and find out the latest news in our twitter and on the official website .

Very little is left before the start, and ... “the next station is NeoQUEST”!