HITBSecConf2006 - The Largest Network Security Event in Asia! KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Hack In The Box (M) Sdn Bhd has announced that it will once again be hosting the industrys most anticipated annual security conference, HITBSecConf2006, in Kuala Lumpur at The Westin Hotel from 18-21 September 2006. This home-grown non-profit hacking and network security conference will feature over 30 of the worlds leading network security specialists who will be on hand to conduct 7 tracks of technical training sessions on the 18th and 19th of September. Topics for the training sessions include advance web application & services hacking; attacking & defending networks; the exploit laboratory; tactical VoIP: applied VoIPhreaking; War driving .Gov; structured network threat analysis and forensics; and Yin and Yang of Java security programming. This training will then be followed by two days of deep knowledge network security presentations with topics ranging from network assessment and attack methods, fundamental defense methodologies, and the latest computer and network security technologies. In addition, there will also be a live hacking competition known popularly as Capture The Flag. The competition, first developed and presented at Defcon in Las Vegas, is an attack and defense game which sees teams of individuals tasked with defending and attacking into prepared servers in order to retrieve marked files or flags on these target machines. The main aim of the HITB series of conferences is to allow the dissemination of deep-knowledge network security info and at the same time, give the attendees a chance to meet with the worlds leading experts in this field. The presentations at the event are delivered by respected members of both the mainstream network security arena as well as the underground or black hat community. As always attendees can be assured of being amongst the first to learn of new attack and defence methods that have not been discussed in public before, said Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hack In The Box (M) Sdn. Bhd. We believe the conference is also an ideal opportunity for IT and security vendors from within the ASEAN region to meet with not only the experts but also to share their own expertise and technology with the public, he added. Industry-acclaimed keynote speakers The conference keynote speakers for this year will feature Bruce Schneier, Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Counterpane Internet Security; Mark Curphey, Vice President of Consulting at Foundstone; and John Viega, Chief Security Architect at McAfee. Schneier is internationally-renowned cryptologist and author. To date, he has authored eight books, including his current best seller, Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World. Schneier is also credited for designing the popular Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms ?- the latter a finalist for the new Federal Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Bruce serves on the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, and is also an Advisory Board member for the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Recognised for his work in the software security field, Mark Curphey was the Director of Information Security at Charles Schwab where he was responsible for creating and managing the global application security program when software security wasnt yet on most companies radars. He also founded the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) that has become a well-regarded reference site for developers and system architects and recommended reading by the US Federal Trade Committee. Curphey is currently Vice President of Consulting at Foundstone and is responsible for the global services team. John Viega is the co-author of three books on application security -- Building Secure Software, Network Security with OpenSSL and the Secure Programming Cookbook. He also built the CLASP application security process, which is available online. Viega co-developed GCM, a mode of operation for block ciphers such as AES that has been incorporated into IPSec and the 802.1AE draft document, and is currently being standardised by NIST. Despite being cautious about embracing the open source security theory, John has been involved in many open source projects. He was the original author of the Mailman mailing list manager, and has been author or co-author of many other free projects, including RATS, SafeStr, XXL and ITS4. For more details and updates on HITBSecConf2006, point your browser to http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2006kl/. To register for the technical training sessions, conference session and Capture The Flag competition, go to http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2006kl/register.php. About HITBSecConf2006 Malaysia HITBSecConf2006 Malaysia is the 6th non-profit conference in our deep-knowledge series and has been supported and endorsed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and Malaysia Administrative Modernisation & Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) for the past 2 years. For further details, call Hack In The Box (M) Sdn. Bhd. at +603-20394724. Media Contact: Belinda Choong Events Manager Hack In The Box (M) Sdn. Bhd. Tel: +603-20394724 Fax: +603-20318359 Email: cbelinda at hackinthebox.org _________________________________ HITBSecConf2006 - Malaysia The largest network security event in Asia 32 internationally renowned speakers 7 tracks of hands-on technical training sessions. Register now: http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2006kl/
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