14 DAY TRIAL // We’re in Amsterdam attending the 2012 edition of the Hack in the Box security conference. It’s a great atmosphere down here, so we have decided to make a video overview of the event to show everyone what’s happening at the Okura hotel.
The day started with Andy Ellis, Akamai’s chief security officer, who held a speech on “Getting ahead of the security poverty line.” He is a great speaker and he has provided some wonderful examples of what companies should and should not do to keep their infrastructure and assets secure.
Ivo Pooters, a senior digital forensics investigator at Fox-IT, had a great presentation on “Turning Android inside out.” It was based on a scenario in which they analyzed a couple of phones involved in a murder. One of them was owned by the victim, “the dead guy,” and the other one by the criminal, “swiftlogic dude.”
There were a lot of other great speakers, including Sebastien Renaud and Kevin Szkudlapski, Itzhak ‘zuk’ Avraham and Nir Goldshlager, Claudio Guarnieri, Didier Stevens, Juan Pablo Echtegoyen, Arnauld Mascret, Gal Diskin, Jurriaan Bremer, and Marinus Kuivenhoven.
The closing keynote was held by Rop Gonggrijp, the well-known hacker and activist, who’s on a mission to convince information security experts to help people stay secure.
We’ve also had a few interviews today. We’ve had the honor of talking to Adam Gowdiak, the founder and CEO of Security Explorations, Roberto Suggi Liverani, principal security consultant at Security-Assesments.com, and Georgia Weidman, founder of Bulb Security LLC.
As many of you may know, this edition of HITB Amsterdam features a world premiere. For the first time ever, the members of the Chronic Dev Team and the iPhone Dev Team got together to present their work.
We’ve had the chance to speak to three of them: Joshua Hill, aka @p0sixninja, Cyril, aka @pod2g, and Nikias Bassen, or @pimskeks. You’ll have an opportunity to see the complete interview in a few days from now, but in the meantime we’ll try to provide you with the highlights of our discussions.
For tomorrow, the Apple jailbreak Dream Team has a big surprise planned, so stay tuned.
Another thing worth mentioning, which you can see in the video below, is that Google has sent its recruiters in search for fresh talent. Considering that there are a lot of great minds present at the event, we wouldn’t be surprised if they found what they were looking for.
In the meantime, check out the video overview of HITB 2012 Amsterdam and the speaker presentations:
