Hack In The Box Celebrates a Decade of Security Conferences With a Bang
Last week’s Hack In The Box Security Conference, HITB’s Ten Years In The Box celebration, saw the return of over 40 of the most popular speakers from the last decade presenting in a triple track format over 2 days.
Security insights into Huawei routers, a last minute non appearance by founders of The Pirate Bay, a live streamed iOS security panel comprising members of the world famous jailbreak ‘Dream Team’ and USD60,000 awarded for a successful bypass of Google’s Chrome browser resulted in Hack In The Box ‘trending’
This year’s nuclear war inspired Capture The Flag hacking game saw hotly contested battles with Japanese Team Sutegoma2 eventually retaining their title for another year and walking away with the USD3133.7 in cash. The second place winner was Team LOL from Vietnam and in third was Team Nandy Narwhals which comprised of university students from Singapore. In addition to the cash prize, second and third place winners walked away with custom made, biatch&dawg hoodies and t-shirts designed exclusively for the competition by HITB speaker and information security specialist, Fyodor Yarochkin.
“It's always fun to watch the Vietnamese go head-to-head with the Japanese every year,” said Amin Hamid, Founder of Stryke Labs and organiser of the 2012 competition. “I'd also like to thank Trustwave SpiderLabs and PandaLabs for sponsoring and also being part of the game.”
“Thanks also to all the participating teams and we hope everyone had fun!" he added.
At this year’s Mozilla HackWEEKDAY hackathon, strong entrants saw many developer teams finishing compelling proof of concepts after the 36 hour period. With competition stiff, the judges deliberated in length to decide the ultimate winning entry - DICOM-WAVE, a project that utilizes Microsoft Kinect as a controller to translate gestures for surgeons to view MRI images. Malaysian developer Firdaus Abhar Ali walked away with USD1,337 for ‘Most L33t Coder’, courtesy of Mozilla Corporation. In traditional hacker spirit, all source code from submitted projects have been made available on Github for download:
https://github.com/hackweekday/HW2012KUL
After 2 days of hacker battles, security exploitation and mitigation discussions, the conference ended with the HITB Charity Auction which raised a staggering MYR23,980 for Mount Miriam’s Needy Cancer Patient Fund. Featuring HITB auctioneer Roberto Preatoni who returned to Malaysia specifically to run the auction, enthusiastic bidders saw generous sums being raised for donated items including a one-of-a-kind Microsoft custom-designed XBox 360, the Pwnium 2 team laptop and JailBreak Dream Team signed Apple accessories. However the undisputed auction highlight was certainly when Katie Moussouris, Senior Security Strategist for Microsoft Corporation challenged Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure to cut off his iconic ponytail for charity.
“There is a super special place in all our hearts for Katie and Mikko. Their extremely generous donation to the charity auction this year is indescribable and the team and I cannot thank them enough. Much love also to all our donors who put up some very special items for us this year and of course our bidders, for their support in raising funds for Mount Miriam’s Needy Cancer Patients Fund”, said Dhillon Kannabhiran, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Hack In The Box.
“In all, thank you to everyone in the HITB family - speakers, sponsors, crew, friends, attendees for the past 10 years of pure hacker goodness and for celebrating this year’s milestone with us. Bring on the next decade!”
Video live stream of the CTF and HackWEEKDAY prize ceremony plus the complete charity auction can be viewed at the HITB uStream Channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hitb/ For more information on HITBSecConf2012 – Malaysia including post conference media coverage, photos and videos, please visit: http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2012kul/ or follow our @hitbsecconf Twitter account
