Forwarded from: Attila Bartfai <attila.bartfai (at) hacktivity.com> World of Ethical Hackers Revs Up -- Hacktivity 2011 On September 17-18, 2011, Hacktivity, the largest hacker conference in Central and Eastern Europe will be held again, this time at Millenáris. The two-day conference will have a real festival mood, presentations, workshops, games, the European finals of the Global CyberLympics, hardware hacking, a party in the evening and 1000+ hackers from all over the world! Early bird registration ends September 10, save now and buy your 2 days ticket for 50-100 EUR. Similarly to previous years, this year’s two keynote speakers are real stars in their fields of expertise. Saturday will open with Hungarian-born Peter Szor who lives in the US and is justly called the Father of Virus Protection. His 650-page book „The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense”, is not only a highly scientific work but also the most extensive study written about computer viruses to date. In 1996 he was hired by the predecessor of F-Secure in Finland, then became a leading engineer at Symantec in 1999 and recently joined McAfee. At CARO (Computer AntiVirus Researcher's Organization) he worked together with many security researchers including John McAfee, Mikko Hypponen or Eugene Kaspersky. Sunday’s keynote speaker is Raoul „Nobody” Chiesa from Italy, the well-known European cyber crime expert. In the 1980s and 90s he was one of the first Italian hackers then in 1997 he founded @Mediaservice.net Srl, a vendor-neutral security consulting company. Since 2003 he has co-operated with the UN agency “UNICRI” (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute) and in 2010 he was selected among the 30 European top security expert to assist the ENISA Director until 2012 at the PSG, Permanent Stakeholders Group. And that’s not all when it comes to foreign speakers. Vivek Ramachandran, founder of securitytube.net, will come from India, Joseph McCray, Air Force veteran and winner of multiple awards by EC-Council, will arrive from the US, Ertunga Arsal, SAP expert and Alexander Kornbrust, Oracle expert will come from Germany. Pavol Luptak is Head of the Slovakian OWASP and Michele Orru, penetration tester for the Royal Bank of Scotland will come from Italy. In addition to the renowned foreign specialists there will be numerous prominent Hungarian speakers as well including Csaba Barta, security consultant at Deloitte Zrt. who was voted best speaker at Hackers Halted and who will speak about Computer Forensics, László Tóth, internationally recognized database security expert also from Deloitte Zrt. and Péter Bodor, Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, who will talk about the connection between the increasingly popular method of social engineering and psychology. Beside the presentations plenty of other programmes will await participants such as interactive hello workshops, hardware hacking lockpicking, i.e. unlocking a lock without a key, and ardunio testing, games: Wargame, CTF, hacker’s path, ancient computers reborn, a wild party Saturday evening and for the first time this year the European Finals of the Global CyberLympics at Hacktivity 2011! The global defense games organized and launched by EC-Council will have groups of 6 competing in 7 regions in the world. The finals will be held in the United States where the regional winners will be invited. At the conference certified (CISA, CISM, CISSP) specialists can collect CPE points necessary for their licence. Due to the high interest shown in the event the organizers expect 1,000-1,200 participants this year. We have a new venue as well: this year’s conference will be held in the 4590 sqm Hall B of Millenáris where professional infrastructure, a restaurant, two large and several smaller rooms will be available. Further information, the detailed program and registration: www.hacktivity.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hacktivity Twitter: twitter.com/hacktivity2011 -- Hacktivity - The Largest Hacker Conference in Central and Eastern Europe 17-18 September 2011, Budapest, Hungary _____________________________________________________________ Register now for the #HITB2011KUL - Asia's premier deep-knowledge network security event now in it's 9th year! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/Received on Mon Aug 29 2011 - 02:28:13 PDT
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