Conferences
Cebit Expo 2009
SensePost have once again been invited to join the South African Department of Trade and Industry at Cebit, as one of 15 SA companies, to exhibit on their pavilion. Visitors to this show range in the region of 500,000 and approximately 5700 exhibitors fill the 27 Halls. Cebit is the biggest information and technology show in Europe and attracts exhibitors and visitors from all over the world. Our stand number is E48 in Hall 5.
HITB08 – Marcus Ranum Keynote on CyberWar..
I just managed to pull the HackintheBox torrents for their [2008 talks]. (SensePosters can grab a local copy [here]). I watched Marcus Ranums “Cyberwar is Bullshit” talk. A talk that was truly wince-worthy! While the talk will make you scream at the screen a few times, it is worth watching just to see the Q&A section after the talk.. It’s quite clear that Ranum gets owned more thoroughly than his online gallery did.
ITWeb Security Summit 2009 – CFP Deadline
I just wanted to remind everyone that the CFP for the 2009 ITWeb Security Summit closes on 26 Jan. We’re hoping to see much more in the way of submissions from local infosec people (especially from corporates) but there’s also still room for international submissions. So far I know of 11 ‘international’ submissions. ITWeb is really good to its international speakers so non- South Africans shouldn’t be put off by the long distances. The conference is at an excellent location, South Africa is beautiful at that time of year, you’ll stay in a swanky hotel (this is the one they used last), the food and beer are cheap and ITWeb will take good care of you. You can check out the conference home page and CFP here.
SensePost Training @ Black Hat DC
So… Black Hat DC is rushing at us like a speeding big… speeding thing. This is just a friendly a reminder about the show (Hyatt Regency Crystal City • February 16-19). We have two courses on offer at the DC show this year – Bootcamp (a highly practical course that teaches method-based hacker thinking, skills and techniques) and Combat (all hack, no talk – our flagship course).
One small change to our usual approach this time is that we’re requesting Combat students to bring their own laptops. On Bootcamp and our other courses we provide pre-configured XP boxes but Combat participants are generally already quite experienced and comfortable on their own platforms.
Dont look now, but it seems they broke the Interwebs again..
Those pesky hackers!
Alex Sotirov (of heap feng shui fame, famous for breaking everything from Vista, to web browsers, to facebook) and Jacob Applebaum (of cold-boot attack fame, and more importantly of “knuth is my homeboy” fame) will be talking in a few hours at the 25c3 conference in Germany and by all accounts its going to be an “Internet Breaker”.
There is a fair bit of speculation on the nature of the bug (though most people some confident that its routing protocol related) and HD Moore has blogged that the pair have sought legal advice pre-publishing.
Ted Speaker List up and Free hackin9
(aka 2 completely unrelated topics)
You can grab a free copy of the Hackin9 magazine [here] And you can view the speakers list for Ted09 [here]… /mh
More Conn News – PCI Johannesburg
I got contacted the other day (via LinkedIn actually, which is a 1st for me) about a PCI conference some folks are trying to organize here in Johannesburg in January next year. I don’t really know the people (or the conference) but it seems like something that’s sorely needed here and maybe worth making a small investment in.
Here’s where you can get the lowdown – http://www.pci-portal.com/events/event-info/event/pci-johannesburg
ITWeb Security Summit 2009 – CFP Reminder
I wanted to remind folk that the CFP for the ITWeb Security Summit closes on 26 Jan 2009. You can check it out at http://www.itweb.co.za/events/securitysummit/2009/. Local (ZA) should please make themselves heard, but the organizers are also sponsoring travel for international speakers so if you ever wanted to visit the gool ol’ RS of A (that’s in Africa) then here’s your chance….
Microsoft BlueHat, Videos Posted
Microsoft has posted selected videos of the latest BlueHat talks [here]. It’s pretty cool that they are now releasing these videos to the planet..
You get to see Matt Miller (skape), Scott Charney and even za’s very own Roelof Temmingh.
SensePost’ers can grab copies of the talks [here]
/mh
ITWeb Security Summit 2009 – CFP Now Open
A couple of months back SensePost were asked by a prominent South African media company to assist in the selection of content and speakers for an upcoming information security conference called ‘the ITWeb Security Summit‘.
The show runs 26-28 May 2009. The speaker lineup is mostly local (including yours truly) but past speakers have been pretty high-profile – including Dave Litchfield, Johnny Long, Kevin Mitnick, Johnny Cache, Howard Schulz and others.