HITBSecConf

Human societies run on trust.  Every day, we all trust millions of people, organizations, and systems — and we do it so easily that we barely notice.  But in any system of trust, there is an alternative, parasitic, strategy that involves abusing that trust.  Making sure those defectors don’t destroy the very cooperative systems they’re abusing is an age-old problem, and we’ve developed a variety of societal pressures to induce cooperation: moral systems, reputational systems, institutional systems, and security systems.

Being stuck below the security poverty line isn’t about budget, it’s about attitude, motivation, and focusing not simply on basic compliance but rather on your true security goals. Akamai CSO Andy Ellis will share a behind-the-scenes look at how Akamai’s security program evolved through the collapse of the dot-com bubble, avoided being trapped belowthe security poverty line, and developed into one of the most trusted cloud platforms today.

We told you over the weekend that the untethered jailbreak for iOS devices running iOS 5.1.1 is dropping this week. The hacker who’s been spearheading the upcoming jailbreak, pod2g of the Chronic Dev Team, confirmed that the jailbreak was nearly done and arriving in a “matter of days.”

Coincidentally, the Chronic Dev Team will be presenting at the annual Hack in the Box (HITB) conference this week in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Since the 5.1.1. jailbreak is expected to drop this week, we’re placing bets on a release this Friday during the team’s keynote.

L33tdawg: Walk in registrations for HITBSecConf2012 - Amsterdam are still available - The Dream Team is scheduled to present on Friday, 25th of May. The conference agenda has the full details. 

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.  

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