Registration for HITBSecConf2007 - Malaysia is now open! We have moved
our conference to the bigger and better Hilton KL Sentral; Kuala
Lumpur’s newest 5-star hotel centrally located in the heart of Kuala
Lumpur and a mere 28 minutes from the airport via the KLIA Express.
We’re expecting over 800 attendees to join us from around the world for
this year’s Malaysian leg and we promise they will not be disappointed!
HITBSecConf2007 - Malaysia will be the largest network security event
in Asia with 4 keynote speakers and over 40 of the world’s leading
researchers and security experts under one roof. Some of the highlights:
7 Tracks of Hands-On Technical Trainings
Day 1 Keynote Speakers: Mark ‘Phiber Optik’ Abene and Emmanuel Goldstein
Day 2 Keynote Speakers: Lance Spitzner and Mikko Hypponen
HITB Cinema: As part of our yearly charity initiative, we are
organizing screenings of Freedom Downtime and Urchin. Freedom Downtime,
directed and produced by Emmanuel Goldstein is the story of computer
hacker Kevin Mitnick, imprisoned without bail for nearly five years
while Urchin is an independent production written and directed by John
Harlacher and stars Mark Abene as ‘The Inside Man’ and Emmanuel
Goldstein as ‘The Outside Man’. Shot illegally in the subways, sewers,
and streets of New York City “Urchin” is a prime example of guerrilla
cinema made possible by new technology. This will be the first time in
Asia Pacific that these movies are being shown to the public and all
proceeds from these screenings will go to the Malaysian National Cancer
Council - MAKNA.
Capture The Flag: With cash prizes worth USD6,000 this years’ Capture
The Flag game has already received confirmation of participation from
Padocon from Korea (last year’s champions), NDMTeam from Bulgaria, Army
Strong comprising members of the US Army and Zone-H from Italy.
Zone-H/HITB Hacking Challenge: Zone-H in colaboration with the Hack in
The Box crew will organize a 6-level web-based hackgame in which
individual participants will be challenged to try to beat the hackgame
in the shortest possible time. Based on the original game developed by
Zone-H in 2005, there will be no need to bring your own exploits or
your own laptop.
Lock Picking Village (LPV): Deviant Olam, Eric Michaud and Q who are
members from the The Open Organization of Lockpickers (TOOL USA) will
be running a Lock Picking Village at the conference in which attendees
will be invited to try their hands at bumping and other physical
security bypass methods! If you think your home locks are secure,
you’re more than welcome to bring them along and see for yourself how
easily they can be bypassed.
BZFlag Competition: Organized by members of the US Army, attendees to
HITBSecConf2007 will be able to blow off some steam in a BZFlag arena.
BZFlag is an online multiplayer cross-platform open source 3D tank
battle!
For more information on our conference click here !
