HACKWEEKDAY

Congratulations to this year’s HackWEEKDAY winning project called DICOM-WAVE, developed within 36 hours by Firdaus Abhar Ali (@fabhar)! 

We would like to thank Mozilla Corporation for coming in as the cash prize sponsor, Lullabean for those awesome beanbags, our distinct judges from Panda Security, Microsoft Community, Mozilla Corporation and Microsoft Malaysia.

Last but not least, a big thank you to every participants who came and gave their best to develop working applications within 36 hours and everyone who made this year’s HackWEEKDAY happened.

See you all again at HITB2013AMS and HITB2013KUL!

P/S: Participating projects’ source codes are available via GitHub: https://github.com/hackweekday/HW2012KUL

Follow @hackweekday on twitter for live updates. Official hashtag is #HackWEEKDAY & #HW2012KUL.

HackWEEKDAY – Hack-to-Hack

Following the success of HackWEEKDAY held for the first time last year at the HITB Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur,
HITB2012KUL will see the introduction of  HackWEEKDAY – Hack-to-Hack 

An all new 36 hour hackathon which will will run alongside our 10th year anniversary conference kicking off on the evening of October 9th (training day 2).
Registration is COMPLETELY FREE and we have space for 50 developers in total comprising a mix of .edu and professional developers.

This is  your chance to hack with the experts and learn from the best.
Food, drinks and copious amounts of bandwidth will be provided; just bring your own laptop, plug in and get your hack on!

WHEN AND WHERE?

Date : 10th till 11th of October 2012

Venue : HITBSecConf2012KUL @ The Intercontinental KL (Venue - View Map)

Duration : 36 Hours (10th October 0000H – 11th October 1200H)

Prize: USD 1337 to the winning team.

Accepted participants to HackWEEKDAY will also receive

1. 1 x complimentary pass to HITBSecConf2012 – Malaysia’s Triple Track conference on the 10th & 11th of October (valued at MYR1337)
2. Access to the HackWEEKDAY ‘arena’ (Food and drinks provided over the 36 hour period).
3. Wired & Wireless access to #HITB2012KUL’s high-speed fiber

   Terms & Conditions: http://bit.ly/HW2012KULTC

WHY HACK ON HACKWEEKDAY? 

1. To promote and improve information security applications on the current available browsers
2. Spark interest in security application development throughout the developer community.
   (developing web apps and developing security apps isn’t all that that different)
3. Revive abandoned security projects and contribute back to the security community.
4. Knowledge sharing directly from authoritative figures in the security community (HITB speakers and project owners)
5. To seek & foster knowledge sharing amongst local hardware developers and their security applications for general
   use with the information security industry.

HACKATHON FORMAT

This event will be divided into two categories (10 slots each):-

1. STUDENTS – Students from local Higher Education institutions. Entries can be on individual basis or in a group of 4 ( 3 students + 1 lecturer/mentor from their institution)
2. PROFESSIONALS – Developers, enthusiasts and hackers from the industry. Entries can be on individual basis or in a group of 4.

Project Ideas (but not limited to):-

• Propose / Develop / Build / Improve / Update:

  • HTML5-based Web Applications
  • Web Browsers – The functionality of a web browser (Firefox, Fennec, Chrome/Chromium, etc) by the means of either add-ons, plugins and/or custom build. This year’s theme for this category is ‘Social Media Security’.
  • Electronic and/or mechanical hardware-based projects using (but not limited to) arduino, RaspberryPi, Lego Mindstorm, etc.
  • Standalone and/or mobile (Android/IOS/J2ME/Symbian/etc) applications based on the decided theme that would benefit end-users in terms of security.
    
  • … and any other interesting projects that you can think off. Propose to us — If it’s cool, it’s in!

Participants are encouraged to bring their own tools required to help them develop the applications/ideas during the event. This may include laptops, monitors, desktops or any sort of electronic equipment for the participants to use during their event.

Big props to Lullabean for sponsoring some bean bag awesomeness for HackWEEKDAY!