Hack in the box (famously known for HITB) is back with it’s security conference in Malaysia. The security conference called HITB Sec Conf 2008 was hosted every year in Malaysia. Last year, HITB Sec Conf 2007 it was at hosted at Hilton KL.

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HITB Sec Conf 2008 will be hosted at The Crowne Plaza Mutiara in Kuala Lumpur. It starts on 27th October 2008 until 30th October 2008. Below is the details of the agenda :

Hands-On Technical Training Sessions – DAY 1
Date: 27th October 2008
Time: 0900 – 1830

TECH TRAINING 1 – Structured Network Threat Analysis and Forensics
TECH TRAINING 2 – Bluetooth, RFID & Wireless Hacking
TECH TRAINING 3 – Web Application Security – Advanced Attacks and Defense
TECH TRAINING 4 – The Exploit Laboratory

Hands-On Technical Training Sessions – DAY 2
Date: 28th October 2008
Time: 0900 – 1830

TECH TRAINING 1 – Structured Network Threat Analysis and Forensics
TECH TRAINING 2 – Bluetooth, RFID & Wireless Hacking
TECH TRAINING 3 – Web Application Security – Advanced Attacks and Defense
TECH TRAINING 4 – The Exploit Laboratory

Conference DAY 1
Date: 29th October 2008
Time: 0900 – 1800

Triple Track Security Conference featuring new HITB Labs
Capture The Flag (CTF)
Lock Picking Village
Wireless Village
Open Hack

Conference DAY 2
Date: 30th October 2008
Time: 0900 – 1930

Triple Track Security Conference featuring new HITB Labs
Capture The Flag (CTF)
Lock Picking Village
Wireless Village
Open Hack

What I love the best from the conference, there’s a live hacking competition where teams of hackers will be given a set of task to hack and find exploits for the servers. The teams need to build and defend their own servers while attacking other servers for the other teams. This will be judged through points collected by the teams. Sounds interesting right?

I went to the security conference since 2004 while it started on 2003 for Kuala Lumpur. I bought the security conference t-shirt from 2004 and I have all the collection in my wardrobe. Usually I went with some friends or met up with friends there. So anyone interested in going this year? Let me know if you’re planning to go so that we can arrange which day we’ll be going to. For more information, you can refer to the official page for the conference [ here ].

p/s : The conference fee is so damn expensive. I can’t afford to go although I’m damn interested. Anyone want to sponsor me to the conference? I’ll take it as my birthday gift!