[ISN] CanSecWest 2009 Speakers and Dojo courses (Mar 14-20)

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:24:23 -0600 (CST)
Forwarded from: Dragos Ruiu <dr (at) kyx.net>

Final Speaker Lineup for CanSecWest 2009 (March 18-20):
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The Smart-Phones Nightmare - Sergio 'shadown' Alvarez

Getting into the SMRAM: SMM Reloaded - Loíc Duflot

Network design for effective HTTP traffic filtering -
Jeff "rfp" Forristal, Zscaler

Ninja Scanning - Fyodor, Insecure.org

On Approaches and Tools for Automated Vulnerability Analysis - Tanmay 
Ganacharya & Nikola Livic & Abhishek Singh & Swapnil Bhalode & Scott 
Lambert, Microsoft

Kicking It Old School: No DNS Packets Were Harmed In The Making Of This 
Presentation - Dan Kaminski, IOActive

Binary Clone Wars: Software Whitelisting for Malware Prevention and 
Coordinated Incident Response. - Shane Macaulay, Sean Comeau, and 
Derek Callaway, Security Objectives

.NET Rootkits - Erez Metula

The Evolution of Microsoft's Exploit Mitigations - Matt Miller and 
Tim Burrell, Microsoft

An overview of the state of videogame console security. - Victor Muñoz

A Look at a Modern Mobile Security Model: Google's Android - 
Jon Oberheide

Bug classes we have found in *BSD, OS X and Solaris kernels - Christer Oberg 
and Neil Kettle, Convergent Network Solutions

Multiplatform Iphone/Android Shellcode, and other smart phone insecurities -
Alfredo Ortega and Nico Economou, Core

Platform-independent static binary code analysis using a meta-assembly language
- Sebastian Porst & Thomas "halvar" Dullien, zynamics

Persistent BIOS Infection - Anibal Sacco & Alfredo Ortega, Core

Decompiling Dalvik and other JavaFX - Marc Schoenefeld

Automated Real-time and Post Mortem Security Crash Analysis and Categorization -
Jason Shirk & Dave Weinstein, Microsoft

SSL, The Sequel: MD5 collisions and EV certificates - Alexander Sotirov 
& Mike Zusman

Exploiting Unicode-enabled software - Chris Weber

Chinese Infosec & Malware Overview - Wei "icbm" Zhao, 365menshen

Hacking Macs for Fun and Profit - Dino Dai Zovi & Charlie Miller

...and a variety of lightning talks...

(p.s. If I've missed out any affiliations or gotten any spellings or 
affiliations wrong, this is your chance to correct it before it goes to 
lots of other places. please reply ASAP, thks --dr)

Security Masters Dojo courses (March 14-17):
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Metasploit: Asymmetric Warfare - H D Moore, BreakingPoint Systems

Advanced Honeypots - Thorsten Holz

Ultimate Web Hacking (One Day Edition) - Mike Andrews, Foundstone

TCP/IP Network Security In Depth - Andrea Barisani, inverse path

Effective Fuzzing using the Peach Fuzzing Platform - Michael Eddington,
Leviathan Security

Secure Java Programming and Auditing - Marc Schoenefeld

Practical 802.11 WiFi (In)Security - Cédric Blancher, EADS

Advanced Linux Hardening - Andrea Barisani, inverse path

Q/SSE Qualified/ Software Security Expert Certification Bootcamp - 
Security University

Q/SA Qualified Security Analyst Penetration Tester - Security University

The Exploit Laboratory - Advanced Edition - Saumil Shah, Net-Square

Mastering the Network with Scapy - Phillipe Biondi, EADS


Pwn2Own Contests:
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There will be TWO Pwn2Own contests this year.
Generous cash prize(s) for exploits will be sponsored by Tipping Point,
and  a Sony VAIO P fresh from Japan and a new loaded Apple Macbook
will be amongst the prizes.

The targets this year will be mobile smart-phones, and browsers.

Mobile targets:
iPhone
Android
Symbian
RIM/BlackBerry
Windows Mobile

Browser Targets:
IE8
FF3
Safari
Opera

The contest will like in previous years feature a progressively 
expanding attack surface over the three day duration of the conference. 
Final prizes and rules will be announced shortly.

Post-Conference Whistler Expedition:
=============================

We have secured some rooms at good rates at the Westin in Whistler and 
reserved a cluster of four, 3-5 bedroom, cabins for the weekend after 
the conference. Contact dr (at) kyx.net if you wish to be included in 
the planning, final accommodation rates will be announced shortly.

Conference Hotel Block:
===================

The room rates at the Sheraton Wall Center hotel where the conference is 
being held have been reduced from $183 to $169, and still includes a 
waived $15/day free internet access in the rate.


Tenth Anniversary Gala Event:
========================

Since this is our tenth anniversary for the conference, we will be having a
party on Thursday night. Venue TBD.


It promises to be another fun year again this year, See you all there.

cheers,
--dr

--
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Vancouver, Canada  March 16-20 2009  http://cansecwest.com
London, U.K. May 27/28 2009 http://eusecwest.com
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