HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia Grows Even Bigger

HITBSecConf, Asia’s better arrangement aegis conference, is aback afresh from 27-30 October 2008 with this year’s accident accepted to allure added than 1,000 attendees from about the world. The accident which is now into its sixth year in Malaysia will action an broadcast appointment programme with added than 35 speakers including four keynote speakers. In addition, this year’s HITBSecConf will also, for the aboriginal time ever, affection a amateur clue appointment that includes the new HITB Lab sessions that runs in alongside with the appointment proceedings.

The aboriginal two canicule of the accident will be committed to hardcore abstruse training sessions, followed by addition two abounding canicule of amateur clue presentations that will aswell be complemented by hacking competitions and a host of added activities.

“The actuality that HITBSecConf is accretion year afterwards year underlines how analytical arrangement aegis as a accountable amount has become in Malaysia and our charge of consistently bringing the best and the brightest to our shores,” said Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran, architect and CEO of Hack In The Box (M) Sdn. Bhd, the aggregation which organises the HITBSecConf series.

“More cogent is the actuality that IT accommodation makers in bounded organisations as able-bodied as arrangement aegis professionals about the apple accede the amount that HITBSecConf offers to the industry in agreement of hands-on training, abysmal abstruse advice and an invaluable acumen into arrangement aegis trends,” he added.

Technical advance and conferences
For the account of arrangement aegis accommodation makers and managers, four abstruse training advance accept been lined up for Days 1 and 2 (27-28 October). The abstruse advance offered cover Structured Network Threat Analysis and Forensics; Bluetooth, RFID & Wireless Hacking; Web Application Security - Advanced Attacks and Defence; and The Exploit Laboratory.

Due to the attributes of the advice and training that will be provided, the organiser of HITBSecConf will crave that participants for the Exploit Laboratory abstruse training clue assurance a code-of-ethics document. This, acclaimed Kannabhiran, is to ensure that anew acquired accomplishment techniques from this advance are alone acclimated appropriately and ethically.

Meanwhile, the keynote speakers that accept been lined up for Days 3 and 4 (29-30 October) this year are:

1.Jeremiah Grossman (Founder & Chief Technology Officer, White Hat Security)
2.Marcus Ranum (Chief Security Officer, Tenable Network Security)
3.Dr. Anton Chuvakin (Chief Research Officer, Log Logic Inc)
4.Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij (Founders, The Pirate Bay - TPB)

Among the keynote speakers’ presentations, one that is accepted to accumulate cogent absorption from¡ the admirers will be from Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij. The founders of The Pirate Bay will altercate in their keynote how the Internet gives individuals the ability to deliquesce old monopolies and accommodate attendees with a attenuate acumen into what it takes to run The Pirate Bay -- the world’s better book administration arrangement arrangement that generates an estimated 10% of the all-around Internet traffic.

The Pirate Bay is a arrow in the ancillary of the accepted media distributors as it utilises the ability of the Internet to deliquesce the old way of distribution. Currently, the acceptable media distributors are angry aback adjoin The Pirate Bay by employing assorted channels -- both acknowledged and contrarily -- to try and abeyance this book administration arrangement system.

HITB Labs, hacking competitions and more
Complementing the appointment affairs on Days 3 and 4 of HITBSecConf2008 will be the new HITB Lab sessions. These new labs accept been added to baby to attendees who would like to accretion a added compassionate through hands-on tutorial sessions. Each affair admits up to 50 participants with laptops and runs for a absolute of 120 minutes.

There will be three sessions of the HITB Lab anniversary day and some of the capacity that accept been lined up cover tips and tricks to advance accepted wireless technologies such as 802.11 b/g/n; arise WEP/WPA/WPA2; advancing RFID tags, RFID passports and Bluetooth devices; and top akin concrete aegis bypass methods.

Apart from the HITB Lab sessions, accepted activities from antecedent years will aswell be featured again, including the aggregation based Capture The Flag “Live Hacking” competition, Wireless Village, Lock Picking Village, and Open Hack competition.

Pending a sponsor for the event, this year’s Open Hack will absorb a absolutely patched Apple MacBook Air with a absence install of the Leopard operating arrangement with all patches activated and the firewall set to absence settings. The aboriginal being to auspiciously drudge into the MacBook Air will crop the apparatus home.

Furthermore, the aegis accomplishment apparent in this year’s Open Hack will be auctioned to the accomplished applicant during the HITBSecConf2008 Malaysia Charity Auction. Proceeds from the alms arrangement will account the Parents’ Resource for Autism Malaysia (PR4A), a non-profit abutment accumulation for parents whose accouchement are afflicted by autism and added accompanying disorders. The PR4A website is at www.pr4a.org.

For added advice and latest updates on the accessible HITBSecConf2008 accident in Kuala Lumpur (27-30 October 2008), cream to http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2008kl

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