Join HALON and hack an educational institution
Are you a student or employee with a hacker mindset? And do you want to make Dutch education more cyber resilient? Then HALON is for you! Compete with other teams to find vulnerabilities at different educational institutions. HALON 2024 was on 06 November at the UvA. Check out this page for more information on HALON 2025!
- Date to be determined
HALON Hall of Fame
Several teams competed to make education more cyber resilient. There were prizes to be won in 4 categories, see a list of the winners on this page.
Winners 2024
There were prizes to be won in three categories in 2024:
- Most advanced verified vulnerability
- Most creative verified vulnerability
- Finding the most verified vulnerabilities across most targets
Check out the winners and their LinkedIn below!
Most advanced verified vulnerability
Team: We actually do not have any interest to compete in halon and we are just here for the looting as is UvA tradition also radboud rules!!!!!!
Can Acar
Most creative verified vulnerability
Finding the most verified vulnerabilities across most targets
Winners 2023
The following prizes were up for grabs in 2023:
- First vulnerability found: team CF2BrCI
- Most vulnerabilities found across all participating networks: team Loading...
- Most advanced vulnerability found: team I am not a robot
- Most creative method of finding a vulnerability: team Hackze
Curious about the winners? Then check out their LinkedIn profiles too!
Team: Hackze
Thomas de Jong
Selma Meijering
Remco van der Meer
Winners 2022
Team Radboud institute of Pwning
In 2022, the teams below won prizes in the following categories:
- First vulnerability found: team M
- Most advanced vulnerability found: team Lantarenpaal
- Most creative method of finding a vulnerability: team Radboud institute of Pwning
- Most vulnerabilities found across all participating networks: team Foks-IT