HITB News

Hacker conference Hack in the Box (HITB) returns to Kuala Lumpur this October 13-14. An impressive array of speakers will be on hand, kicking off with keynote speakers Chris Wysopal and Paul Vixie. To find out what is in store for attendees, The Malaysian Insider had a quick chat with both speakers on the state of security today.

Currently CTO of security company Veracode, Wysopal is perhaps most known for being part of grey hat (benevolent) hacker group L0pht. He was among the eight L0pht members called to the US Senate to testify on the then-state of Internet security in 1998.

As the Hack In The Box conference in Kuala Lumpur is just around the corner, we'd like to announce a couple of previously undisclosed candies the attendees of our Remote Binary Planting – An Overlooked Vulnerability Affair session will receive.

HITBSecConf, Asia's largest and most popular network security conference, returns for its eighth consecutive year in Malaysia. Taking place from Oct 11 to 14 at the Crowne Plaza Mutiara, this year's event features an expanded programme with a new quadruple track lineup, and keynotes from two of the biggest names in IT security.

Also, for the first time, a keynote panel session featuring four leading network security experts who will discuss the security of cloud computing and future of mobile malware.

Just incase you missed the announcements on our Twitter stream, we’re adding on a couple of new features to this year’s conference that we’re really excited about:

- Capture The Flag Weapons of Mass Destruction 2.0
- Lock Picking Village by TOOOL.nl featuring Barry Wels and Han Fey
- HITB Hard-Hack Village by HackerspaceKL & Random Data (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
- HITB SIGINT (Signals Intelligence / Signal Interrupt)

We're really super excited about the release of this issue as it coincides with our first ever HITB security conference in Europe - HITBSecConf2010 - Amsterdam!

The design team has come up with (what we feel) is an even better and more refined layout and our magazine now has its own site! You'll now find all the past and current issues of the magazine for download at http://magazine.hitb.org or http://magazine.hackinthebox.org/

Hack In The Box, organizers of the HITBSecConf security conferences, the largest network security event in Asia, is set to welcome a brand new event to their yearly line up with the arrival of HITBSecConf2010 – Amsterdam less than a month away!

HITB Jobs (M) Sdn Bhd (HITBJobs), the innovative IT security recruitment specialist, is pleased to announce an exciting line up of activities to celebrate this year’s inaugural Hack In The Box Security Conference in Amsterdam (HITBSecConf2010 Amsterdam). HITBJobs will be organizing the HITB web hacking challenge, a job recruitment registration console as well as partnering with Security University to provide a four-day CISSP® Prep course, a Security Certification “Must Have” for Security & IT Professionals, led by Master CISSP Trainer, Clement Dupuis.

The videos from the 7th annual Hack in The Box security conference held in Malaysia last year have been released. On a related note, do keep in mind that online registration for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai closes in less than 4 weeks and the Call for Papers for HITBSecConf2010 - Amsterdam is still open for submissions!

A true 'hacker's conference' wouldn't be fun without a competition where hackers go head to head, tears are shed, and blood is spilled, and when we say blood we mean points. CTFs have always been about how good and fast you are at reversing and exploiting daemons and binaries. Sure it's fun and all but after a few years of the same thing, it's starts to get boring. Hence we decided to come up with CTF - Weapons of Mass Destruction (say it with me, destruktion!!!).

Welcome to 2010! We are proud to announce the immediate availability of our newly ‘reborn’ HITB ezine! You can grab your digital copies here:

https://www.hackinthebox.org/misc/HITB-Ezine-Issue-001.pdf

As some of you may know, we’ve previously had an ezine that used to be published monthly, however the birth of the HITBSecConf conference series has kept us too busy to continue working on it. Until now that is...