Hello Web App Sec readers,
The Black Hat Briefings Japan '06 speakers have been selected. We received many
presentations this year and we have chosen a broad sampling of topics facing
security professionals today, with an emphasis on issues facing Asian Pacific
region . The
<http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-en-schedule.html>schedule is
on line now and available on
our<http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-main.html> Black Hat
Japan site in both English and Japanese.
There will be 2 tracks, over 2 days comprised of renowned information and
computer security professionals. We have a wide selection of topics this year
from
"<http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-en-speakers.html#Wicherski>Catching
Malware" to an updated
"<http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-en-speakers.html#Rutkowska>Subverting
Vista Kernel"
Alex Stamos & Zane Lackey - Breaking AJAX Web Applications: Vulns 2.0 in Web 2.0
Jeremiah Grossman -Hacking Intranet websites from the outside: Malware just got
a lot more dangerous
Dan Moniz - Six Degrees of XSSploitation
Paul Bohm -Taming Bugs: The art and science of writing secure code
Joanna Rutkowska - Subverting Vista Kernel For Fun And Profit
Kenneth Geers & Alexander Eisen - IPv6 World Update Strategy & Tactics
Heikki Kortti - Input Attack Trees
Mr. Sugiura - Winny P2P security
Darren Bilby - Low Down and Dirty: Anti-Forensic Rootkits
Thorsten Holz & Georg Wicherski - Catching Malware to Detect, Track and
Mitigate Botnets
Yuji Hoshizawa - TBD
Scott Stender - Attacking Internationalized Software
Please check out the speakers page for updates
<http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-en-speakers.html>http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-en-speakers.html
There you will find Abstracts for the upcoming presentations and get background
information on our speakers.
To register visit us on-line at:
<http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-registration/bh-registration.html#Japan.>http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-registration/bh-registration.html#Japan.
Act fast our early bird discount will end September 15th. We look forward to
seeing you at Tokyo, Keio Plaza Hotel, October 3-6th, 2006.
More information on this years venue is available at:
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-en-venue.html .
Thank you,
Jeff Moss
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