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HITBSecConf2010 – Dubai Call for Papers

The Call for Papers for HITB Security Conference 2010 Dubai is now open!

Talks that are more technical or that discuss new and never before seen
attack methods are of more interest than a subject that has been covered
several times before. Summaries not exceeding 1250 words should be
submitted (in plain text format) to cfp -at- hackinthebox.org for review
and possible inclusion in the programme.

Date: April 19th – 22nd 2010
Venue: Sheraton Dubai Creek
Keynote Speakers:

John Viega (CTO, SaaS, McAfee Inc.)
Matt Watchinski (Senior Director of Vulnerability Research, Sourcefire Inc.)

Submissions are due no later than 1st February 2010.

TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

# 3G/4G Cellular Networks
# Apple / OS X security vulnerabilities
# SS7/Backbone telephony networks
# VoIP security
# Firewall technologies
# Intrusion detection
# Data Recovery, Forensics and Incident Response
# HSDPA and CDMA Security
# WIMAX Security
# Identification and Entity Authentication
# Network Protocol and Analysis
# Smart Card and Physical Security
# Virus and Worms
# WLAN, GPS, HAM Radio, Satellite, RFID and Bluetooth Security
# Analysis of malicious code
# Applications of cryptographic techniques
# Analysis of attacks against networks and machines
# File system security
# Security of Embedded Devices
# Side Channel Analysis of Hardware Devices
# Cloud Security

PLEASE NOTE:

We do not accept product or vendor related pitches. If your talk
involves an advertisement for a new product or service your company is
offering, please do not submit.

Your submission should include:

# Name, title, address, email and phone/contact number
# Short biography, qualification, occupation (limit 250 words)
# Summary or abstract for your presentation (limit 1250 words)
# Technical requirements (video, internet, wireless, audio, etc.)

Each non-resident speaker will receive accommodation for 2 nights/3
days. For each non-resident speaker, HITB will cover travel expenses up
to USD 1,200.00.

HITBSecConf2010 – Dubai
http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/

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In case you missed it, the photos and materials from HITBSecConf2009 -
Malaysia have been released. In addition the CTF Crew has also released
the bonus binaries from the CTF Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Video recordings of the talks will be released as usual in December
(just before Xmas).

Materials:
http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2009kl/materials/

CTF Binaries:
http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2009kl/materials/ctf/

Photos:
http://photos.hackinthebox.org/

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Below are the dates for HITBSecConf2010 (block your calendars now :)

HITBSecConf2010 – Dubai – April 19th – 22nd
Keynote Speakers: John Viega & Matt Watchinski

HITBSecConf2010 – Amsterdam – July 5th – 8th
Keynote Speakers: Paul Asadoorian & Mark Curphey

HITBSecConf2010 – Malaysia – October 11th – 14th
Keynote Speakers: Paul Vixie, Chris Wysopal, Paul Ferguson

See you guys in Dubai!

HITBSecConf2009 – Dubai !!

Yes folks, you read it right. We’re heading over to Dubai, UAE for our annual 4-days only, HITBSecConf2009 – Dubai!

Venue: Sheraton Dubai Creek,
Baniyas/Creek Road,
Dubai, UAE

There’ll be no Call for Papers this time around for HITBSecConf2009 – Dubai, but we are gonna bring in respectable speakers from the InfoSec industries to present awesome and kick ass papers! Among those whom we’ll be inviting to Dubai this time around are:

Keynote 1: Dr. Anton Chuvakin (Director, PCI Compliance Solutions, Qualys)
Keynote 2: Mark Curphey (Director, Connected Information Security Group, Microsoft Corp)

1.) Emmanuel Gadaix (Founder, Telecom Security Task Force – TSTF)
2.) Wes Brown (Senior Security Consultant, Matasano Security)
3.) Philippe Langlois (Founder, Telecom Security Task Force – TSTF)
4.) Billy Rios (Security Engineer, Microsoft Corp)
5.) Meling Mudin (Founder, security.org.my / Core Crew, HITB)
6.) Nate McFeters (Senior Security Advisor, Ernst & Young)
7.) Anthony Zboralski (Founder, Bellua Asia Pacific / HERT)
8.) Shreeraj Shah (Founder, BlueInfy)
9.) Roberto Preatoni (Founder, WSLabi – The Exploit Marketplace)
10.) Fabrice Marie (Founder, FMA-RMS)
11.) Sebastian Porst (Security Consultant, zynamics GmbH)
12.) The Grugq (Independent Network Security Researcher)
13.) Marc Weber Tobias (Investigative Attorney and Security Specialist)
14.) Saumil Shah (Founder, Net-Square)
15.) Jim Geovedi (Security Consultant, Bellua Asia Pacific / Member, HERT)
16.) Riley Hassell (Senior Security Consultant, iSEC Partners)

As for our 2-days training, we’ll only have 3 training classes for you guys to choose:

TECH TRAINING 1 – Web Application Security – Threats and Countermeasures
Trainers: Shreeraj Shah (Director, BlueInfy) & Vimal Patel (Founder, BlueInfy)

TECH TRAINING 2 – 802.11 Ninjitsu
Trainer: Anthony Zboralski (Founder, Bellua Asia Pacific and HERT) & Jim Geovedi (Security Consultant, Bellua Asia Pacific / Member, HERT)

TECH TRAINING 3 – The Exploit Laboratory 3.0
Trainer: Saumil Shah (Founder/CEO, Net-Square) & SK Chong (Security Consultant, SCAN Associates Bhd.)

Online registration is now open so register for your seats now and enjoy a special Early Bird rate of only USD1499 for Training Tracks only, USD1998 for both Training Tracks and Conference, and if you’re only interested to come for our conference, it’ll only be USD499. We have a special discounted price of only USD250 nett for students who wishes to register for the conference. Hurry up! Early bird ends on 23rd February 2009! See you guys in April! :)

For more info (Venue / Date / Updates), visit:
Conference Page
Registration Page

HITBSecConf2008 Malaysia – Write-UP

Even tho US is in the middle of a recession crisis, HITBSecConf2008 – Malaysia sees alot of Americans taking their time off from their usual routine back in the states to come down here for our training & conference. I’m not sure of what the official number of attendees are for this year but by the looks of it, it could possibly hit 600 people. Official attendee counts for conference delegates excluding speakers / exhibitors etc were about 700 people; Total count including every single entity during the event is about 800 – 850 people.

We only have 4 training tracks; Structured Network Threat Analysis and Forensics, Bluetooth, RFID & Wireless Hacking, Web Application Security – Advanced Attacks and Defense & The Exploit Laboratory 3.0; as opposed to 7 tracks in 2007 but the response were quite overwhelming considering on average, all 4 classes are completely full and the attendees this year are quite well prepared in accordance to the classes that they registered to. Which is quite good since there were some attendees who doesn’t even know or heard of a single thing about what they’re supposed to be learning of last year and that probably would take up the trainers’ time a bit more than what they anticipated just to teach them basics all over again. A number of those who initially signed up only for training tracks, decided to extend their stay for the conference when they found out our awesome speaker line ups :P

Conference day registration officially opens at 7am but there are a few who are already mingling around the area (besides crew & volunteers) as early as 6.45am. Oracle guys came at around the same time as well to set up their huge, red-ish booth up. Thanks for the red cup Oracle, I personally loved it :D

I missed a lot of talks by good speakers as I was assigned to handle our OpenHack booth; which, no one really really tried & won any of the 4 MacBook Airs up for grab. Everyone who came to our previous conferences agreed that Crowne Plaza Mutiara is huge, awesome and better than Westin and Hilton KL Sentral. I couldn’t agree more :D

Due to some unavoidable issue, Dr Anton Chuvakin couldn’t make it this year as our keynote speaker for day 2, so both keynote slots were given to The Pirate Bay guys, TiAMO & Brokep! Both of them are cool guys from Sweden, their slides which are available for downloads via our conference site represents and idealogy that all these MPAA copyright things are a bunch of bullshit and why most of these moguls who are based in the USA loves to think that USA = the rest of the world. As much as end users are made to think that piracy kills the music industry & musicians, TPB reminded us again that musicians earn more if they made their music available for download online since they only got like, 10% of total sales from the huge music companies anyways; that’s robbery in broad daylight if you ask me.

All in all, HITBSecConf2008 – Malaysia was a blast! Thank you for those who attended, speakers, crews, volunteers, and everyone who made it happened. See you @ HITBSecConf2009 – Malaysia ! :D

Cheers :)
– aphesz / Hafez

HITBSecConf2008 Malaysia *Keynote UPDATE*

KEYNOTE 1 – “The Art of Click-Jacking” – Jeremiah Grossman (Founder &
Chief Technology Officer, White Hat Security.)

KEYNOTE 4 – “Dissolving an Industry as a Hobby” – Peter Sunde [brokep]
and Fredrik Neij [TiAMO] (Founders of The Pirate Bay – TPB)

The Exploit Laboratory 3.0 class has been updated!

Register for your seat(s) now!