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John Viega, Chief Security Architect of McAfee, Inc., the global leader in Intrusion Prevention and
Security Risk Management, will present "What application
security tools vendors don't want you to know and holes they
will never find!" at the Hack in the Box Security Conference
2006. Viega will be joined by Mark Curphey, Vice President of
Consulting at Foundstone Professional Services, a division of
McAfee, Inc. During the course of the presentation, Viega and

The Call for Papers for HITBSecConf2006 - Malaysia is now open! Set to take place from the 18th till the 21st of September 2006 at The Westin Kuala Lumpur, this years event promises to once again deliver a look at the latest attack and defense techniques as well as the latest research in network security. We have some exceptional keynote speakers this year including Bruce Schneier, Mark Curphey and John Viega!

We are pleased to announce that the latest edition of the HITB e-zine (Issue #38) has been released. We do hope everyone enjoyed the videos of HITBSecConf2005 - Malaysia... If you haven't downloaded them yet, they're still available at http://video.hitb.org. Our Call for Papers for HITBSecConf2006 - Malaysia (September 2006) will open on the 27th of February, so stay tuned for that.

After a very long wait, we are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the HITBSecConf2005 - Malaysia videos! HITBSecConf2005 took place on the 26th till the 29th of September in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. This was an extra special conference for us seeing that it marked our 5th conference! The keynote speakers were Mikko Hypponen (F-Secure) and Tony Chor (Group Program Manager, Microsoft Internet Explorer). The full speaker listing is here.

Happy 2006 to everyone, especially to the German Customs who had a fine time watching the DVD videos of HITBSecConf2005 which we sent over to Sweden. Although we did promise to have the DIVX videos of HITBSecConf2005 ready for download during the Christmas holidays, the videos ended up getting stuck in Germany, where the customs clearance for the package took a staggering 10 days! To think that we sent the shipment via DHL's International courier service expecting the shipment to arrive in 3 days, only to have it take over 2 WEEKS instead!

CRACKERS HAVE already discovered a method of illegally adding MP3 storage capacity to Microsoft's super soaraway Xbox 360.

The Xbox as it ships does not let you load MP3s onto it, probably as part of a deal between Vole and the music biz. However according to this 'ere site, making the machine do what Vole doesn't want you to do is dead easy. All you need is a a hard drive of your choice and a USB 2.0 to ATA adaptor.

After a bit of juggling you can load content to the drive via windows. Plug it into your 360 and go to media and select portable device and it's all there.

Yes we've finally had to upgrade our backend system and move to a more robust platform. While Thatware has certainly been an excellent CMS, and provided for us much longer than we expected it was written during the days of PHP3 and a lot of features that are now part of the PHP engine itself had to be developed by hand. Further to this there are just too many features we would like to add on but Thatware is unable to support this without an entire code rewrite.

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of the Hack In The Box Security Conference 2004 videos [Pack-1 and Pack-2]. Held at The Westin Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia from October 4th till the 7th, HITBSecConf2004 saw some of the biggest names in the network security industry down to present their latest research and findings.

After a nice Chinese New Year break we are pleased to bring you Issue #36 of the HITB e-zine. This is a pretty interesting issue with an exclusive article on Red Hat PIE Protection written by Zarul Shahrin as well as an article on building a simple wireless authenticated gateway using OpenBSD by Rosli Sukri (member of the HITB CTF Crew). I am also pleased to announce that the Bit Torrent videos of the entire 2 days of HITBSecConf2004 will be made available on Monday March 7th 2005!

Happy New Year everyone! Although we were initially hoping to get the e-zine out in time for xmas, we decided to delay the release by a couple of days as a mark of respect to the thousands who have lost their lives and to those who have been affected by the earthquake/tsunami disaster of December 26th 2004.