Security News > 2008 > September > News from Black Hat: Upcoming Events and a New Webcast

Forwarded from: "jmoss" InfoSec News Readers, This year's USA show is now in the books and I want to thank you for helping Black Hat Grow and become better over the years. We think it might have been our best event ever with record attendance both in training and briefings. In addition to the attendance records, our lineup of presentations was our strongest ever. The strength of that lineup was in part due to the input of our delegates - USA 2008 was the first event where paid attendees participated in the presenter selection process. The results of that collaboration were better than we expected and we look forward to extending that innovation across our family of events. BLACK HAT USA AUDIO VIDEO By far, the most popular presentation was Dan Kaminsky's talk on the DNS exploit - it dominated the news coverage and was attended by a standing room only crowd that was somewhere near double the size the room was supposed to hold. If you'd like video of that talk, you can find it on https:/www.blackhat.com/ The rest of the show will be online in video and audio formats soon. If you'd like to see the white papers and slide presentations from BH USA 2008, they're available now on our US 2008 archive page. We've also got a BH Flickr account if you'd like to see pictures of the event. Our photostream on Flickr is named Black Hat Briefings. We'll be adding pictures from the show steadily - if you have some you think others would like to see, let us know by sending email to darington () blackhat com and we'll post those too. FUTURE BLACK HAT BRIEFINGS Next on the agenda is Black Hat Japan, which returns to the Keio Hotel in Tokyo from October 5 to October 10. Delegate registration is open for this event. If you're interested in attending, use the code BHUSJPPA for a discount of JPY 20,000. We have a strong lineup of speakers for this event that you can check out at: https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-08/brief-bh-jp-08-index.html. Black Hat comes back across the pond for the DC event, which will take place February 16-19, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City. We've grown into a bigger venue and we look forward to a dynamic conference with more training offerings. Then Black Hat travels to Amsterdam for Black Hat Europe, which returns to the Moevenpick Hotel in Amsterdam from April 14-17. Our flagship event, Black Hat USA 2009 is scheduled for July 25-30 at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip with four days of training, our biggest Briefings ever as we move into the new and expanded conference building being built as you read this! NEW WEB CASTS! Our successful webcast series returns to action on September 18 with a full presentation of a very interesting talk from USA 2008 that got a good deal of media attention - Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd's presentation entitled "How To Impress Girls With Browser Memory Protection Bypasses." We're trying something new here - we're going to use most of the hour to allow a full, in-depth presentation, very similar to the way it was presented at the event. So if you've never attended a Black Hat presentation, this is your chance to get a taste of what we do. If you attended, but didn't get the opportunity to hear Sotirov and Dowd speak, this will be great for you. Even folks who attended the presentation at BH USA might benefit from the opportunity to ask questions. You can register for the event at this gnarly URL: http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=117307&s=1&k=77CB8EE0B5BC4EC5AB070B8AB487B085 As always, if you'd like to get onto our mailing list to learn about webcasts as they're announced, please drop us a line at subscribe-webcasts () blackhat com You can also have access to all of Black Hat's breaking news by following us: - Twitter at https://twitter.com/BlackHatUSA2008. - Our RSS feed at https://www.blackhat.com/BlackHatRSS.xml Thank you, Jeff Moss __________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia! With a new triple-track conference featuring 4 keynote speakers and over 35 international experts, this is the largest network security event in Asia and the Middle East! http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/

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