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The dates of the ninth Positive Hack Days are now out: next year's forum will take place at an all-new venue, the Crocus Expo International Exhibition Center, on May 21–22, 2019.

The Standoff was back this year at Positive Hack Days 8, where over 100 participants on 12 attacker teams, 7 defender teams, and security operations center (SOC) teams were eager to show their mastery of the digital systems of an entire mock city.

For the third year running, the highlight of the hacking contests at Positive Hack Days is The Standoff, in which teams of attackers, defenders, and security operations centers (SOCs) do battle in a virtual city. In 2018, a total of 19 teams took part in The Standoff, and for nearly 30 hours, these teams fought for control of the city. Read on for a blow-by-blow account of what happened during these two exciting days.

At this year's PHDays, we held an all-new contest named EtherHack. Participants were on the clock as they solved tasks involving smart contract vulnerabilities. Here we present the contest tasks along with a detailed explanation of the intended solutions.

The contests at this year's Positive Hack Days included MeterH3cker, an all-new competition for hacking the smart grid. Participants had the run of two mock buildings powered by solar panels; excess power was sold back to the grid at a special rate. The job of the participants was to interfere with metering by any means necessary in order to improve their account balance.

Mr. Robot again cheered guests of Positive Hack Days. This year, people could not only play a quiz, but also upgrade their skills using hacking tools or even have an interview for a job at Positive Technologies! Over 2,000 people came to have a talk with our chatbot, and that certainly boosted its artificial ego :) Keep reading for more details.

More than 5,000 visitors came to Positive Hack Days this year, the majority of them security professionals. Their creativity and fine-tuned technical intuition were on full display in the hacking contests. CAMВreaker was no exception. In this article, we describe the preparations, techniques, and victors in this marathon of IP camera hacking.