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L33tdawg: Early bird registration rates for #HITB2014KUL ends on the 1st of August... What are you waiting for?

Threat Intelligence, an Australian security consultancy specialising in the next era of intelligence-based threat management and penetration testing, today announced that it has been selected to run its cutting-edge “Practical Threat Intelligence” course at the prestigious Hack In The Box Security Conference (“HITBSecConf”) in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, October 13 – 16 October 2014.
 

At Hack in the Box (HITB) security conference in Amsterdam, Steffen Wendzel, head of Fraunhofer FKIE, presented "Alice's Adventures in Smart Building Land – Novel Adventures in a Cyber Physical Environment"(pdf). This wasn't "just" weaponizing your coffee pot. Brace yourself because Wendzel warned that a new class of botnet is coming. In fact, smart building botnets won’t be used for boring things like denial-of-service attacks or even refrigerators sending spam.

L33tdawg: Don't forget to sign up for a chance to win your own Sphero when you visit HITB Haxpo! http://sphe.ro/mpeyo

Orbotix will be at HITB Haxpo at the end of May to give engineers, researchers and hackers a crash course on how they can help inspire the next generation of kids using robotics. In addition there'll be daily giveaways on social media and also prizes for HackWEEKDAY developers! 

In Amsterdam at the end of May? Here's a rare chance to meet with the world famous Mitch Altman of TV-B-Gone fame and learn how to solder from the man himself!

Mitch is a hacker and inventor, most well known for inventing TV-B-Gone, he’s been a speaker at numerous hacker conferences, is an international expert on the hackerspace movement and teaches introductory electronics workshops.

The Mozilla security team is proud to be once again sponsoring the Hack-in-the-Box HackWeekDay competition, this time at the Haxpo conference in Amsterdam, 28-30 May 2014. Come learn about Firefox OS, make apps to compete for great prizes and help shape the future of the mobile web.

This HackWeekDay event is the biggest yet, and will actually be run over the course of three separate days. There will daily prizes, and you can compete in as many days as you want:

L33tdawg: Anthony/s presentation abstract is here.

Claims to generate boarding passes with Apple Passbook.A security boffin claims to have developed a method to score free flights across Europe by generating fake boarding passes designed for Apple's Passbook app.

For the third year in a row Sogeti organizes the social engineering challenge during Hack In The Box Amsterdam.

In 2012 and 2013 they asked contestants to show weaknesses in the top 100 Dutch organizations. This year, the challenge has a twist!

L33tdawg: We've got a fully packed line up with some really awesome content and if you haven't already registered, now might be a good time to do so as late registration rates start in April. You can register online here.

In the maritime business, Automated Identification Systems (AIS) are a big deal. They supplement information received by the marine radar system, are used for a wide variety of things - including ship-to-ship communication - and are relied upon each and every day. Unfortunately, the AIS can also be easily hacked in order to do some real damage, claims a group of researchers presenting at the Hack In The Box Conference currently taking place in Kuala Lumpur.