Institute of electronics and computer science (EDI) hosted the first MAKE RIGA Hacking competition last weekend. We are happy to announce that the co-owners of 1st Ltd Kirils Solovjovs and Jānis Jansons won the first and the third place respectively.
Contenders were given 13 hours over the course of two days to solve 21 challenges worth ten points each. Participants were competing in the following categories among others:
- WiFi security,
- password cracking,
- embedded device analysis, including firmware disassembly and flashing,
- radio intercept and decoding,
- RFID security,
- reverse engineering software binaries and hardware components,
- security of network services.