About Competition

What is UTPHAX?

UTPHAX National Hacking Competition 2016 (UTPHAX’16) is a competition (formerly conducted by Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS) that acts as the preliminary round for all Malaysian teams to advance to various Regional Asia and World Hacking Competition. The UTPHAX’16 is a multi-tier, team-based, hacking competition operating based on Cyberlympic Hacking Competition by EC-Council Foundation.

To beat a hacker, you need to think like one! This is exactly what this competition is all about. It is the pinnacle of the most desired hacking competition you will ever want to be in. Thus, to master the hacking technologies, you will need to become one. UTPHAX’16 in short will make participants undertake attempts to penetrate networks and/or computer systems using the same methods and techniques a Hacker utilizes. UTPHAX’16 will be conducted by immersing the participants in a hands-on environment where they need to hack in and use their brain to the limit.

Participants need to use creative methods to win the competition. They need to scan, test, hack, defend and use creative and constructive mind to secure a system. The contest will foster creativity, teamwork, and innovation and enables students to test their ability to perform under pressure. Quite simply, it is the best place to seed creativity and inundate skills for a better world beyond imagination.

OBJECTIVES

  • Recognize and reward Malaysian’s hacking talents from our local universities.
  • Provide an International standard hacking competition platform among students in our local universities.
  • Prepare our contestants and contestants from other local universities to be competent in participating in International contests such as Cyberlympic and DEFCON and possibly to organize our own International Hacking Competition.

ABOUT UUM

Universiti Utara Malaysia (Sintok Campus) was officially opened on 17 February 2004 by the Royal Chancellor, His Royal Highness Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah. The main buildings of the campus are the Sultanah Bahiyah Library, the Chancellery, the Sultan Badlishah Mosque, the Muadzam Shah Hall, the Tan Sri Othman Hall, the Sports Complex, the Varsity Mall, the Budi Siswa building, the Convention Complex, and the buildings that house the various departments of the Academic Colleges.

As a campus situated far from the madding crowd, UUM has ensured that its students do not want for adequate accommodation. At present, UUM has 15 Student Residential Halls (SRH), which, all together, house 20,000 students. The SRHs are named after Malaysian companies, institutions, and organisations of repute, namely MAS, TENAGA NASIONAL, TRADEWINDS, PETRONAS, EON, MISC, SIME DARBY, BSN, TM, PROTON, MAYBANK, YAYASAN ALBUKHARY, BANK MUAMALAT, BANK RAKYAT, and SME BANK.

The university sees the need to be global in practice and content since the knowledge it generates and purveys transcends and extends far beyond the borders of Malaysia. In this restructuring exercise, 13 faculties were merged and streamed into 3 main Academic Colleges, namely UUM COB (UUM College of Business), UUM CAS (UUM College of Arts and Sciences), and UUM COLGIS (UUM College of Law, Government and International Studies).

Now, Universiti Utara Malaysia are having event which namely Discover UUM. Many exhibition and activities are held in UUM. Further information, You can click logo below.