Hackers, Anonymous members, the cyber corps of the police and other security experts: in the digital world, they often fight each other and they hardly have any contact at all. Time for a meeting and in a special way: a paintball fight.
The project called Operation Cyberpaint began on Twitter where a hacker and a cyber security specialist discussed about fighting eachothers differences. As according to the organization's founders various groups talk to little with each other and they reside mostly on their own forums. While there surely is a need for a conversation.
An informal game of paintball is the perfect setting to set the dialogue according the organisation. An additional advantage with the masks on you as a participant makes everyone "anonymous". And that is an important prerequisite, for example hackers who would rather not want to sit in a room. Together with the police.
Precautions.
Some visitors were therefore the day their mask. Some even put the phone to a digital information to be relinquished.
The organization took precautions: the wifi on the location went out to protect against any hacks it. "We did not want messing and zero risk for the location where we played," said organizer Oscar Koeroo.
Panel Discussion
Of course it was not only shot with paint: also the current problems in the field of cyber security were discussed in a panel discussion. At breakneck speed things like DDoS attacks and hacking back were discussed. Nothing concrete came out of the discussion, but the parties have come at least closer together.
According to participants and the organization Operation Cyber Paint was a success and it is likely that next year a meeting.
The project called Operation Cyberpaint began on Twitter where a hacker and a cyber security specialist discussed about fighting eachothers differences. As according to the organization's founders various groups talk to little with each other and they reside mostly on their own forums. While there surely is a need for a conversation.
An informal game of paintball is the perfect setting to set the dialogue according the organisation. An additional advantage with the masks on you as a participant makes everyone "anonymous". And that is an important prerequisite, for example hackers who would rather not want to sit in a room. Together with the police.
Precautions. Some visitors were therefore the day their mask. Some even put the phone to a digital information to be relinquished.
The organization took precautions: the wifi on the location went out to protect against any hacks it. "We did not want messing and zero risk for the location where we played," said organizer Oscar Koeroo.
Panel Discussion Of course it was not only shot with paint: also the current problems in the field of cyber security were discussed in a panel discussion. At breakneck speed things like DDoS attacks and hacking back were discussed. Nothing concrete came out of the discussion, but the parties have come at least closer together.
According to participants and the organization Operation Cyber Paint was a success and it is likely that next year a meeting.
Source: NOSop3.nl
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