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In a world where governments are demanding exceptional (and unprecedented) access to systems under the guise of national security and the looming specter of terrorism, recent events have resurfaced the conflict between privacy and security. While some believe this to be a new battle of the Internet age, it’s just a continuation of the unending crypto war between technologists and law enforcement.

Videos of the open-to-public HITB CommSec (community and security) track of talks held alongside the 7th annual HITB Security Conference in The Netherlands have been uploaded to the HITBSecConf Youtube channel.

Many of today's security laws will be unworkable according to one security expert speaking at today's 7th Hack in The Box (HITB) conference in Amsterdam.

John Adams, head of security for Bolt Financial, treated the HITB conference to a state of play in the ongoing crypto-wars between the private and public spheres.

Patricia Zorko, head of cyber-crime at the Dutch National Crime Squad, opened the 7th Hack in the Box conference on a humble note. Proclaiming herself “the least technical person in the room”, Zorko said, “I really want to emphasise that you are really a very important community.”

Her 34 years in policing have seen her don a number of hats. She's been a district commander, a policy adviser and a member of the riot squad.

Apple has yet to patch a vulnerability disclosed during last week’s Hack in the Box hacker conference in Amsterdam that allows an attacker with physical access—even on the latest versions of iOS—to swap out legitimate apps with malicious versions undetected on the device.

Researcher Chilik Tamir of mobile security company Mi3 Security disclosed last week during his talk at the show that an iOS mitigation for a previous attack he’d developed was incomplete and with a modification, he could still infect non-jailbroken iOS devices with malicious or misbehaving apps.

Amsterdam – 24 May 2016: On the 26th of May, the 7th Annual HITB Security Conference in The Netherlands will kick off with a Welcome Address by Patricia M. Zorko, MPA – The Netherlands Deputy National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism and Director Cyber Security. Held at the NH Grand Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam, Ms Zorko’s 15 minute welcome address is titled “Cybersecurity: A Dance Between Governments, Companies and Hacker Communities.

Amsterdam – 25th April 2016:

On May 26, the Dutch Women in Cyber Security Foundation (WiCS), will confer the very first Women of the Year Award at HITBSecConf! This yearly WiCS Award celebrates female front runners, who successfully and passionately strive to enhance the cyber security field. Recognizing the accomplishments and contributions of our champions, the WiCS Award is a showcase for the value of women to the cyber security field.

Nick Biasini is the Outreach Engineer at Cisco Talos. He has researched a wide range of topics including exploit kits and various malware campaigns being distributed through email.

Biasini is presenting at HITBSecConf Amsterdam 2016 this spring. Come see his session, Exploit Kits: Hunting the Hunters, on May 26, 2016.