The hacking challenge hopes to attract articulate and talented contestants to fill a UK-wide skills gap in tech security
For the past few years, it's survived because no one important has bothered to pay attention to it, but that's due to change. A multinational coffee chain has expressed interest in an acquisition, and now the auditors are being brought in to make sure there aren't any hidden dangers. If they look hard enough, they'll find some blinders.
Not only has the company left up a voucher code generator that can get crafty users free coffee for life – it's also storing the credit card numbers of at least 20,000 of its customers in an insecure database.
Thankfully, Koffee Cafe doesn't exist. The company is a fiction, put together to test the ability of some of the UK's best hackers while promoting the idea that cyber security is a career which people can, and should, consider entering.
The cafe - and its website and IT infrastructure – were created by Cyber Security Challenge UK, a not-for-profit that works with some of the UK's biggest tech companies to design and run events that aim to close the gap between the country's need for talented cyber security staff, and the number of people actually working in the industry.
This was a story that was shown on Sky news, they said that the government would be getting help from these hackers to help them with the cyber war and for general help against the opposition.
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