Security

No sleep pays off at #SS17HACK

With software development, you don’t have to stay up all night and eat junk food. But it seems to help.

18 May 2017

Thirty-four young people hunkered down in a room at the ITWeb Security Summit 2017 this week for the #SS17HACK, a Geekulcha initiative in association with ITWeb Events and Snode.

The winners, who called themselves team ‘Nosleep’ built a platform that allows corporates to upload an instance of their computing environment, and hackers can then ‘have a go’ at penetrating it, according to the team’s spokesperson Yedidia Muk'mar (21).

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