HITB News

We are excited to announce an exclusive talk on the new exploit marketplace project, WabiSabiLabi. Presented by their Strategic Director, Mr Roberto Preatoni, attendees will be the first in Asia to hear directly from the guys behind the project on the purpose of it’s set up, the project’s direction and to address the controversies surrounding it.

Presentation Title: WABISABILABI: The Exploit Marketplace Project
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There will be a charity screening of two movies at the upcoming Hack in The Box Security Conference 2007 (HITBSecConf2007) in September.

This is the first time the two movies — Freedom Downtime and Urchin — are being brought to Asia-Pacific with Malaysia being the first country to screen it, said Hack in the Box (HITB), which organises the conference series.

Proceeds from the screenings will go to the Malaysian National Cancer Council.

The screenings will be held from Sept 3-4 at the KL Hilton.

The videos from the first ever deep-knowledge security conference to be held in the UAE; HITBSecCoinf2007 - Dubai is now available for download. Unlike our conferences in Malaysia where the ENTIRE conference is recorded and the videos released on Bit Torrent, for the Dubai event we only recorded the welcome address by H.E. Mr. Mohammed Nasser Al Ghanim (Director General of the UAE's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority - TRA) and the keynote presentations by Mikko Hypponen (Chief Research Officer, F-Secure Corp) and Lance Spitzner (Founder, Honeynet Project).

Asia's largest network security conference, HITBSecConf, hits Kuala Lumpur in September and this year promises to be its largest tech glitterati gathering to date.

The four-day "hacker-fest" will kick-off with two days of hardcore technical training sessions, followed by two days of dual-track presentations and never-before-seen attack demos.

Supported and endorsed by the UAE Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA), the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU), the conference was officially opened with a welcome address by His Excellency Mohamed Nasser Al Ghanim, Director General of TRA.

Registration for HITBSecConf2007 - Malaysia is now open! We have moved our conference to the bigger and better Hilton KL Sentral; Kuala Lumpur's newest 5-star hotel centrally located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur and a mere 28 minutes from the airport via the KLIA Express.

Scanit our partner and platinum sponsor for HITBSecConf2007 - Dubai are arranging for a video viewing session of presentations given during HITBSecConf2006 - Malaysia. If you've never been to a HITB event before and want to know what it's all about, this is your chance to have a look :)

The Call for Papers for the 2nd HITBSecConf to be held in the Middle East, HITBSecConf2007 - Dubai is now open.

HITBSecConf2007 - Dubai will take place at The Sheraton Creek hotel and will run from the 2nd till the 5th of April 2007. Keynote speakers for the conference will be Mikko Hypponen (Chief Research Officer, F-Secure Corporation) and Lance Spitzner (Founder, Honeynet Project). Security researchers based in an around the Middle East are encouraged to apply.

SUBMISSION

We are pleased to announce that the videos from HITBSecConf2006 - Malaysia are now available for download. Broken down into 2 packs, the download's are rather hefty at 6.52GB and 5.66GB each but is well worth the bandwidth. If you're looking for the presentation materials, they are available on Packet Storm.

Here's what's in each package.

HITBSecConf2006 - Malaysia - PACK 1

KEYNOTE 1 - Schneier on Security - Bruce Schneier

We are happy to announce that the HITBSecConf videos from 2003, 2004 and 2005 have been resynced and reseeded. Much thanks to the folks at Interunix.net for providing the bandwidth and torrent tracker.

Download links are as follows:

HITBSecConf2003 - Malaysia (SINGLE DOWNLOAD)