Black Hat Federal and Europe CFP and Registration now open
Things have been busy at Black Hat, and I would like to make some brief
announcements about our Call For Papers (CFP), Registration, RSS + Pod casts,
and legal battles.
BLACK HAT FEDERAL 2006 Trainings and Briefings
January 23rd to the 26th Sheraton Crystal City, Washington D.C.
- Call For Papers is now open.
- Registration for the Trainings and Briefings are open.
BLACK HAT EUROPE 2006 Trainings and Briefings
February 28th to March 3rd Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Call For Papers is now open.
- Registration for the Trainings and Briefings are open.
BLACK HAT RSS FEED
The RSS feed from Black Hat can be used to keep you up to date with
announcements, presentations, and new speech content. Check it out:
http://www.blackhat.com/BlackHatRSS.xml
BLACK HAT JAPAN 2005 PODCASTS
The presentations from the recent Black Hat Japan Briefings are now on-line. We
are also experimenting with new ways to share our content with the community,
and the first of these is to release some of the audio recordings as ?pod
casts? in .m4a format through our RSS feed.
BLACK PAGE UPDATE
Early next week you will see my first written statement regarding the Cisco/ISS
incident that occurred at the summer Black Hat in Las Vegas. The issues brought
up last summer are important to the entire security community and I invite the
community to read and reflect on my thoughts, as well as those of other
security experts.
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-blackpage/bh-blackpage.html
IN MORE DETAIL:
FEDERAL 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS
Black Hat is proud to return to Washington D.C. after its last Briefings in
2003. For 2006 there will be expanded training offerings, focused
presentations, and a convenient central location two metro stops from the
Pentagon.
Black Hat Federal 2006 is a unique show specifically crafted to look at issues
important to those charged with protecting critical networks and information
from the most sophisticated adversaries. Submissions should be very technical
and specific to threats and defenses that surround the challenging security
problems facing hosts and networks today. We hope to offer a federal
perspective on security issues and new directions to further security trade
craft.
The Federal Government faces different threat models than the corporate
community, with adversaries having different motivations, resources, and tools.
Submissions should reflect this difference, with suggested topics including the
current state of root kits and their detection, network IDS evasion &
detection, covert communications, reverse engineering / anti-reverse
engineering, defeating biometric systems, and the current state of the exploit
development life cycle.
http://blackhat.com/html/bh-federal-06/bh-fed-06-cfp.html
BLACK HAT FEDERAL 2006 REGISTRATION
Black Hat Federal 2006 Briefings and Trainings registration is now open. The
Briefings offer two tracks over two days with 22 presentations. There will be
11 Trainings classes, with new offerings such as Saumil Shah's "The Exploit
Laboratory - Buffer Overflows For Beginners," and Matt Hargett's "Binary Static
Analysis: From the Inside-Out." Class sizes for all trainings are limited to
ensure each student receives individual attention.
Register early before classes fill up and to receive an early discount.
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-registration/bh-registration.html#Fed
EUROPE 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS
The Black Hat Briefings 2006 Europe CFP is opened. Submit your cutting edge,
vendor neutral security research today. Black Hat Europe '06 takes place
February 28th to March 3rd at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands.
http://blackhat.com/html/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-cfp.html
BLACK HAT EUROPE 2006 REGISTRATION OPEN
Black Hat Europe 2006 Briefings and Trainings registration is now open. The
Briefings offer two tracks over two days with 25 presentations. There will be
10 Training classes with new offerings and an updated SensePost class "Hacking
by Numbers: Combat Edition." Due to limited class size, many of our classes
fill up quickly. Register early to ensure training availability and to take
advantage of our early bird registration discount.
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-registration/bh-registration.html#eu
WHAT IS THE BLACK HAT BRIEFINGS?
The Black Hat Briefings fill the need for computer security professionals to
better understand the security risks and potential threats to their information
infrastructures and computer systems. Black Hat accomplishes this by assembling
a group of vendor-neutral security professionals and having them present
candidly about the problems businesses face and their solutions to those
problems. No gimmicks - just straight talk by people who make it their business
to explore the ever-changing security space.
IMPORTANT DATES
- January 23-26: Federal Briefings 2006 & Training, Sheraton Crystal City,
Washington, DC
- February 28-March 3: Europe 2006 Briefings & Training, Grand Hotel
Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- July 29-August 3: USA 2006 Briefings & Training, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
Please visit http://www.blackhat.com/ for more complete information.
Jeff Moss