{"id":22838,"date":"2021-01-28T09:07:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T08:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/?p=22838"},"modified":"2021-01-28T09:26:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T08:26:42","slug":"red-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/blog-ciberseguridad\/red-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Balloon Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

After opening the box we can read in the note: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hello comrade, welcome to your search! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this novelistic way begins the job interview <\/strong>to join Red Balloon, a small company founded in 2011 by Ang Cui based in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cybersecurity<\/strong> is growing at a tremendous pace, so much so that the talent demand<\/strong> is rapidly outsupplying. This is why the \u201cacquisition\u201d of a good profile for the company has become a very tedious and ingenuous task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proof<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this case, the company Red Balloon has designed a test aimed at identifying hackers with the \u201cskills and passion\u201d<\/strong> that the position requires, where the prize is 0.1337 Bitcoins.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applicants for the offer receive a mysterious box at home by mail, in which they find a blank disk, an adapter and the typewritten note that we mentioned at the beginning with GPS coordinates. If they manage to solve this puzzle and claim the Bitcoins hidden inside, they are asked to buy a ticket to New York City to meet at the point indicated in the note and continue with their interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are a small company, we are looking for a kind of person very specialized security,<\/strong> and we don\u2019t have the huge amount of human energy to waste reviewing every resume,\u201d Cui said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also indicated that the test is designed to select people with knowledge computer hacking<\/strong> capable of solving problems that probably would never have been encountered before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red Balloon indicates that it has sent the test to almost all applicants but so far, only the 1% has managed to solve it<\/strong>. They also indicate that they regularly change parts of the test to ensure that the work to solve it cannot be shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf I ship 150 to 200 pounds of hard drives, I'll typically get a team member back,\u201d Cui said. \u201cIt's a worthy investment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a curiosity, we'll tell you that the amount of bitcoins contained on the hard drives has not been chosen at random. "1337" in hacker language means "leet," a term used by hackers to refer to the "elite."<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The challenge of Red Balloon, a company that seeks candidates with knowledge in cybersecurity who will be interviewed in a very curious way.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":22841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[332],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-ciberseguridad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}