HITB2013AMS

As part of Google's ongoing commitment to encourage women to excel in computing and technology, Google is once again offering two female computer scientists passes to next month's HITB Security Conference in Amsterdam.

The Google EMEA Travel and Conference Grant offers winners:

•     Free registration for the conference (10th and 11th April worth EUR1299)
•     Up to 1000 EUR towards travel costs

To be eligible for a conference grant, the candidate must:

Amsterdam, 1 March: Edward Schwartz, Chief Information Security Officer at global information security giant, RSA, will be delivering his Day 1 keynote address on “Embracing the Uncertainty of Advanced Attacks with Big Data Analytics“ at the annual HITB Security Conference in Amsterdam on the 10th of April.

Hack in the Box 2013 Amsterdam (HITB2013AMS) will host all sorts of interesting talks and competitions. One of these competitions is the Sogeti Social Engineering Challenge 2013.

Sogeti aims at raising awareness among organizations on the importance of effective security policies that can help them avoid reputation-damaging incidents and privacy issues.

Global IT services provider Sogeti, will launch the Sogeti Social Engineering Challenge 2013 (#SSEC2013) during the 4th annual HITB security conference, #HITB2013AMS in April.

The first set of 10 preesntations and 2 lab sessions scheduled for #HITB2013AMS have been announced and they're packed to the brim with hack-fu goodness! From the initial list, there's definitely going to be somethng for everyone with presentations on remotely hacking aircrafts to a full blown 0-day exploit affecting all versions of Microsoft Windows.

L33tdawg: The presentation by Evad3rs along with some other superb papers have already been announced. From the looks of it, this is going to be yet another KICK ASS EVENT! Spaces are starting to fill up, as always it's a good idea to register early!

L33tdawg: The competition officially started yesterday and ends on the 8th of March at 13:37 CET. Winners will be announced on the 11th of March via @HITBSecConf on Twitter. Good luck and hopefully we'll see you in Amsterdam! :)

Hack In The Box launched the #HITB1337Giveaway - A Twitter based competition that will see one lucky winner not only walk away with a VIP ticket to the triple track hacker conference in April but also $1337 to help with travel expenses.

L33tdawg: The @evad3rs have submitted a paper to #HITB2013AMS on the inner workings behind the #evasi0n jailbreak and the immense amount of work that went into putting together this brilliant piece of code! Needless to say, we're excited!

L33tdawg: Edward Schwartz, Chief Information Security Officer at RSA will be delivering the keynote at #HITB2013AMS in April. The Call for Papers for the event runs till the 8th of February.

L33tdawg: In related news, @pod2g announced yesterday on Twitter: "We have submitted our paper to #HITB2013AMS. Crossing fingers. Title: Swiping through modern security features." followed by "'We' is actually: @planetbeing, @pimskeks, @MuscleNerd, and I."

The big names of the iOS jailbreak scene have come together as the Evad3rs Dev Team to work on iOS 6 jailbreak.