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Quebec City, March 16, 2012

When: March 30 @ 9 p.m. until 9:00 a.m. March 31
Where: Room P-457, 4th floor, Cégep Ste-Foy, Quebec City (Map)
Registration:  inscriptions @ hackfest.ca (teams of 4 or fewer: send last name/first name, team name)
Price: $0 / Free
CTF Track Details: CTF Tracks

It is with great sadness that we learned of the cancellation of Hackus 2012. They fell victim to an unforeseeable and unfortunate situation. Its absence will leave a big hole in Quebec's security games scene, and enthusiasts will have to wait until next November to get their "fix".

Since many people were getting ready to compete at Hackus, this cancellation leaves a lot of folks hungry for more, ourselves included. So we decided to move up the unveiling of a project that wasn't supposed to be announced until next November's Hackfest: the Hackerspace iHack Night.

iHack Night is meant to be a training ground (sparring program) for security games. It's one night where, for 12 hours, up to 10 teams of 4 people can have fun testing the security of the systems made available to them. The challenges will vary in difficulty, letting beginners get familiar with security games just as much as letting the 1337 test their latest scripts and tools.

The first edition (2012.2) of this gathering will start on the evening of March 30, 2012 and end on the morning of March 31. We exceptionally chose this date so that people who had set aside their weekend for Hackus can put it to use in other security games. We're not replacing an event of the quality and scale of Hackus, we're just offering a "quick fix" for those who need their dose of security games. After that, the event will be quarterly, in February, May, August and November (Hackfest itself). Needless to say, the scope of these games isn't the same as Hackus or Hackfest.

Thanks to our partner Cégep Ste-Foy Continuing Education, the first edition will be free! All you need to bring is your computer. The winning team will be announced on our website and will receive a cash prize.

Registration is open now. Just write to [email protected] to register your team (we need the names of all team members and the team name).

We hope to see lots of you on March 30 at Cégep Ste-Foy.

P.S. For those who love details, more information will follow in the coming days :-)