Info on Network Forensics Puzzle Contest at DEF CON 24

[TheCotMan]

I am not affiliated with this event and nothing I write is authoritative for it.

Ann Dercover is at it again! You're hot on her trail as she travels around the globe hacking systems, stealing intellectual property, launching 0-day attacks and setting up sneaky backdoors. *You are the forensic investigator.* You've got packet captures of Ann's network traffic. Can you analyze Ann's malicious traffic and solve the crime by Sunday? Be the first to solve the puzzle and win an Apple Watch!

Site: http://forensicscontest.com/

[UPDATE: A tweet from the account they have listed on their website as cancelled. Assuming this is not a result of a compromised twitter account, joke or part of the contest, this strongly suggests the contest has been cancelled. Thanks to 8bits0fbr@in (see below) for posting this update]

[8bits0fbr@in]

The NFPC has been cancelled this year. (No, not like DefCon being cancelled... it's actually been cancelled).

LMG Tweets:
https://twitter.com/LMGSecurity/stat...75551238778880
https://twitter.com/LMGSecurity/stat...75586017869824
https://twitter.com/LMGSecurity/stat...87408024416256

:( :( :(

[TheCotMan]

The NFPC has been cancelled this year. (No, not like DefCon being cancelled... it's actually been cancelled).

LMG Tweets:
https://twitter.com/LMGSecurity/stat...75551238778880
https://twitter.com/LMGSecurity/stat...75586017869824
https://twitter.com/LMGSecurity/stat...87408024416256

:( :( :(

Good catch. From their http://forensicscontest.com/ website, twitter account https://twitter.com/LMGSecurity is their official twitter account and assuming it has not been compromised, your link to tweet https://twitter.com/LMGSecurity/stat...75551238778880 confirms the cancellation.

[dgencare]

Boo. What happened? Why canceled?