HITB

This year’s Hack-in-the-Box Netherlands security conference takes place next week at the Okura Hotel in Amsterdam, and will be the first ever week-long HITB event. A new iOS jailbreak is expected.

Guesting on IOActive’s blog, the HITB team has produced a detailed commentary on next week’s HITB security conference. It introduces the keynotes and their speakers, such as Bruce Schneier, CISO at BT Counterpane, talking about ‘Trust, Security and Society’; and Andy Ellis, CSO at Akamai, discussing the evolution of Akamai’s security program.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 14 May 2012 – Sogeti Nederland B.V. has just announced the first ever Social Engineering and CTF Challenge (#SSEC2012) in Europe. Hosted at the third annual HITB Security Conference on 24th - 25th May at Okura Hotel in Amsterdam, the challenge will see participants putting their social engineering skills to the test in a series of fact-finding phone approaches aimed at Dutch companies.

It's like something big's going to happen at HITB related to jailbreaking : look at this.

This year’s Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam promises a lot of great challenges, but also a number of interesting topics that will be presented by the speakers. Two of the subjects detailed at HITB will be the “Ghost in the Windows 7 allocator” and the new Windows 8 RunTime feature. 

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 25 April 2012 - Following last year’s successful LEGO Mindstorms Hackerspaces Challenge, HITB is excited to be working with Microsoft for this year’s CommSec Challenge which will bring players into the world of motion capture devices. The Kinect for Windows CommSec Challenge takes place on May 24th and 25th alongside HITBSecConf2012 - Amsterdam.  

L33tdawg: I'm excitedly awaiting the Dream Team at #HITB2012AMS - It's going to be epic! :) 

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27 April 2012 - This year Google has once again extended its Diversity Grant Program for female hackers to attend the third annual HITB conference in Europe, HITBSecConf2012 - Amster

L33tdawg: The iOS jailbreak 'Dream Team' including pod2g, planetbeing, nikias and p0sixninja will be in Amsterdam next month at HITB2012AMS in their first ever public appearance!

The 8th issue of the HITB Quarterly Magazine is now available for download!

This edition is a little bit 'lighter' than previous issues as the editorial team is busy working on an extra special release for our 10th year anniversary conference in October, HITBSecConf2012 - Malaysia. 

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2 April 2012 – The group of hackers responsible for pulling off the widely-considered-impossible jailbreak of Apple’s popular iPhone 4S and iPad 2 devices will be showcasing their research at Europe’s annual HITB Security Conference.