{"id":94813,"date":"2019-08-14T16:43:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T23:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/carnegie-mellon-team-flexes-hacking-prowess-with-fifth-defcon-title-in-seven-years"},"modified":"2019-08-14T16:43:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T23:43:44","slug":"carnegie-mellon-team-flexes-hacking-prowess-with-fifth-defcon-title-in-seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/carnegie-mellon-team-flexes-hacking-prowess-with-fifth-defcon-title-in-seven-years","title":{"rendered":"Carnegie Mellon team flexes hacking prowess with fifth DefCon title in seven years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carnegie-mellon-team-flexes-hacking-prowess-with-fifth-defcon-title-in-seven-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PITTSBURGH, Aug. 12, 2019 \/PRNewswire\/ \u2014 Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s competitive hacking team, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&l=en&o=2548967-1&h=1986538177&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpwning.net%2F&a=Plaid+Parliament+of+Pwning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Plaid Parliament of Pwning<\/a> (PPP), just won its fifth hacking world championship in seven years at this year\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&l=en&o=2548967-1&h=2383148825&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.defcon.org%2Fhtml%2Fdefcon-27%2Fdc-27-index.html&a=DefCon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DefCon<\/a> security conference, widely considered the \u201cWorld Cup\u201d of hacking. The championship, played in the form of a virtual game of \u201ccapture the flag,\u201d was held August 8\u201311 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>PPP now holds two more DefCon titles than any other team in the 23-year history of DefCon hosting the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re wondering who the best and brightest security experts in the world are, look no further than the capture the flag room at DefCon,\u201d says David Brumley, a professor of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&l=en&o=2548967-1&h=486910452&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ece.cmu.edu%2F&a=Electrical+and+Computer+Engineering\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/a> at Carnegie Mellon, and the faculty advisor to the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH, Aug. 12, 2019 \/PRNewswire\/ \u2014 Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), just won its fifth hacking world championship in seven years at this year\u2019s DefCon security conference, widely considered the \u201cWorld Cup\u201d of hacking. The championship, played in the form of a virtual game of \u201ccapture the flag,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}