Close calls, but no cracks
Although Openhack III during the second week saw more uptime than in the first week, eWeek Labs did see a few crashes, especially in the Web server system, which crashed from brute-force attacks involving a few hundred thousand attempts to access the FTP server. However, although denial-of-service and standard attacks were the methods of choice during the first week, the second week saw more intriguing attempts to break the systems.
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