#HITB2012KUL IS OVER

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SPEAKERS AND SPONSORS FOR MAKING

THIS ONE OF OUR MOST EPIC CONFERENCES — EVER!!!

!!! Ten Years In The Box & A Decade of Awesome !!!

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION MATERIALS:  http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2012kul/materials/

Photos from the event will be released in about a week on http://photos.hitb.org/ and FULL HD videos will be uploaded to our YouTube channel in early November

HITBSecConf2012 – Malaysia also goes down in history for the most amount of money we’ve ever raised in a charity auction, with MYR23,980 raised for the needy cancer patient fund of the Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital. All thanks to the awesome auctioning skills of Roberto Preatoni and Katie Moussouris’s brilliant ‘cut for cash’ idea – auctioning off Mikko Hypponen’s iconic pony tail which she not only matched, but doubled! HUGE RESPECT AND MUCH MUCH LOVE to them both! Here’s what happened:

The FULL LIVE STREAM RECORDING from the auction is available on the HITB UStream channel and also includes footage from the CTF + HackWEEKDAY prize giving and also a portion of the iOS / OS X Security Panel Discussion featuring MuscleNerd, Mark Dowd, David ‘ planetbeing’ Wang and Cyril aka pod2g (with panel moderation by L33tdawg)

#HITB2012KUL – Celebrating Ten Years of HITB Security Conferences

Some of you might remember the first HITB conference at Cititel Hotel, Kuala Lumpur back in 2003. That year HD Moore spoke about Metasploit back when it was just the Metasploit Framework. That very conference also marked the last public appearance for LSD Group aka The Hackers Who Broke Windows. Sounds like a decade ago? Well, you are right. Believe it or not, it has been TEN YEARS since our first conference and what a ride it has been – ten great years, three continents, hundreds of speakers, thousands of attendees and a lifetime of stories. 

To commemorate ten years of playing host to the brilliant minds that have helped shaped the security landscape to where it is today, HITBSecConf2012 – Malaysia will be welcoming back on stage over 42 of our most popular speakers from the last 10 years – including the likes of John ‘Captain Crunch’ Draper, The Founders of The Pirate Bay, Mikko Hypponen, DNS guru Paul Vixie, OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt and perhaps even members of the LSD Group!  We will run two packed days of triple-track, hour-long talks. There will be NO KEYNOTES, NO LAB SESSIONS and NO SIGINT slots!

We’re also ramping up this year’s show by expanding on HITB favorites – think round-the-clock 36 hour nonstop Capture The Flag and also a 36 hour hackathon to go with it. A larger HITB CommSec Village and an expanded Lockpicking ARENA! Some of you will also remember our crazy HITB Charity Auctions from years past – HITB auctioneer Roberto Preatoni who once even sold the shirt and pants off his back is – BACK! This year’s auction is in aid of the Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital – an independent facility founded in 1976 whose mission is to make treatment affordable to all cancer patients.

No HITBSecConf is complete without a party and capping off our 10th year anniversary will be our biggest post conference party yet. Sponsored as always by Microsoft, we will toast to 10 years of HITBSecConf epicness overlooking the Kuala Lumpur skyline, with IOActive’s DJ Keith Meyers behind the decks providing the choons!

There are only 1010 seats available for the conference, so we really encourage you to register early. This year’s decade celebration is definitely the one not to be missed.

See you there!

The HITB .my Team