HITB will feature great security related activities that will keep the attendants busy

Sep 30, 2011 19:31 GMT  ·  By

On 10-13 October, the InterContinental hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, will host the largest security conference in Asia, where for the 9th time, leading industry professionals from all over the world will gather for the Hack in the Box Security Conference.

“HITBSecConf’s main focus is on new and ground-breaking attack and defense methods that have not been seen or discussed in public before,” stated Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran, founder and chief executive officer of the event.

Apart from the usual conferences, technical trainings and research presentations, this year a special activity will take place that will unite all the top coders in a 24-hour hackathon. HackWEEKDAY debuts on the October 12 and it will end a day later, time in which Xandora.net Project, Dilligence, Mozilla Firefox plugins and other open source tools will be worked on.

Close to 1000 IT specialists are expected at the event which is announced to be something special because of the extra projects that will take place.

“HITB is one of the few conferences I actually reserve time for a year ahead these days; excellent speakers and fantastic facilities in the gorgeous town of KL,” revealed Fredrik Soderblom, a former senior security adviser at Hewlett-Packard and who now owns XPD AB.

The excellent speakers Soderblom was talking about will include, Riley Hassell who will delight the audience with his insight on the matter of “Hacking Androids for Profit.”

The opening keynote will be held by Dr. Kenneth Geers, a U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Cyber Subject Matter Expert who will highlight the implications of Wikileaks regarding national safety.

Skype vulnerabilities and air travel hacking will also be debated by conference speakers such as Benjamin Kunz from Vulnerability Labs and Hendrik Scholz, a developer and manager of one of the largest VoIP installations in Europe.

Other new features this year will be the Capture The Flag - Weapons of Mass Destruction game, and an improved version of Lock Picking Village. Hardware and electronics specialists and enthusiasts will have the opportunity to test their skills in the Hackerspaces ‘Playground’ where they will play with robots, microcontrolers, lasers and RFID toys.

Softpedia will try to interview some of the attendants so stay tuned for interesting opinions from a few of the world's top security specialists.

Registration details and other information on the event can be found on the HITB official website.