*UPDATE*

1pm - 7pm Contest Area, July 31st. <-- Sign up!

Lets Up The Ante
Muts and the Offensive-Security team has agreed, to provide FREE TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION to the winning team. It is an awesome prize, and we would like to thank them for working with us. Now you can Social Engineer your way to the top of the contest at DefCon win a cool prize or 2 AND get totally FREE training and certification if you can best the other participants.

http://www.offensive-security.com/blog/backtrack/social-engineering-cont...

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https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=477

DC718 and Telephreak are bringing Social Engineering back to Defcon. HOPE and other conferences have been doing this successfully with a lot of participation for years, and we felt that this was a contest that after so many years should come back to the conference. Thanks to the elite contest/event Goon's Pyr0 and Russr, we have been given permission to start this up. Consisting of two rounds, teams will compete for the bragging rights of “Best Social Engineer @ #DefCon 17 , 2009.” With a few simple rules, the Social Engineering contest is open to any form, style and exploit you wish to bring, in so long as you can follow the rules and not endanger or disseminate anyone's credentials or personal information.