Hack in the Box kicks off jam-packed #HITB2012KUL security conference
Hack in the Box will host its 10th security conference this week in Kuala Lumpur featuring an all-star cast of hacking luminaries and a cutting-edge program.
The lengthy speakers list includes John Draper aka "Captain Crunch," who famously used a whistle from a cereal box to access long-distance switching networks in the early 1970s, as well as Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, two founders of the torrent search engine The Pirate Bay.
Google will reprise its "Pwnium" competition, which it debuted at the CanSecWest security conference in March in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company, which holds the competition to allow researchers to compete for prize money to find security problems within its Chromium browser, will give away up to $2 million in rewards. It has allocated a $60,000 reward for a full Chrome exploit, $50,000 for a partial Chrome exploit and $40,000 for other non-Chrome exploits, which it has detailed on its blog.
