Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:05:42 -0500
From: rholgstad <rholgstad@...il.com>
To: jmoss <jmoss@...ckhat.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: News from Black Hat: Upcoming Events and a
 New	Webcast

its good to see the usual whores - mcfeters, whitehat security, and 
'deputy' dan on the list to talk about the same non-technical stuff they 
have been on about for years.

jmoss wrote:
> Full Disclosure Ninjas,
>
> This year's USA show is now in the books and I want to thank everyone for
> helping Black Hat grow and become better over the years. We think it might
> have been our best event ever with record attendance both in training and
> briefings. In addition to the attendance records, our lineup of
> presentations was our strongest ever. The strength of that lineup was in
> part due to the input of our delegates - USA 2008 was the first event where
> paid attendees participated in the presenter selection process. The results
> of that collaboration were better than we expected and we look forward to
> extending that innovation across our family of events.
>
> BLACK HAT USA AUDIO VIDEO
> By far, the most popular presentation was Dan Kaminsky's talk on the DNS
> exploit - it dominated the news coverage and was attended by a standing room
> only crowd that was somewhere near double the size the room was supposed to
> hold. If you'd like video of that talk, you can find it on
> https:/www.blackhat.com/ The rest of the show will be online in video and
> audio formats soon.
>
> If you'd like to see the white papers and slide presentations from BH USA
> 2008, they're available now on our US 2008 archive page. We've also got a BH
> Flickr account if you'd like to see pictures of the event. Our photostream
> on Flickr is named Black Hat Briefings. We'll be adding pictures from the
> show steadily - if you have some you think others would like to see, let us
> know by sending email to darington@...ckhat.com and we'll post those too.
>
> FUTURE BLACK HAT BRIEFINGS
> Next on the agenda is Black Hat Japan, which returns to the Keio Hotel in
> Tokyo from October 5 to October 10. Delegate registration is open for this
> event. If you're interested in attending, use the code BHUSJPPA for a
> discount of JPY 20,000. We have a strong lineup of speakers for this event
> that you can check out at:
> https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-08/brief-bh-jp-08-index.html.
>
> Black Hat comes back across the pond for the DC event, which will take place
> February 16-19, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City. We've grown into a bigger
> venue and we look forward to a dynamic conference with more training
> offerings. Then Black Hat travels to Amsterdam for Black Hat Europe, which
> returns to  the Moevenpick Hotel in Amsterdam from April 14-17.    
>
> Our flagship event, Black Hat USA 2009 is scheduled for July 25-30 at
> Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip with four days of training, our
> biggest Briefings ever as we move into the new and expanded conference
> building being built as you read this!
>
> NEW WEB CASTS!
> Our successful webcast series returns to action on September 18 with a full
> presentation of a very interesting talk from USA 2008 that got a good deal
> of media attention - Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd's presentation entitled
> "How To Impress Girls With Browser Memory Protection Bypasses." We're trying
> something new here - we're going to use most of the hour to allow a full,
> in-depth presentation, very similar to the way it was presented at the
> event.  So if you've never attended a Black Hat presentation, this is your
> chance to get a taste of what we do.  If you attended, but didn't get the
> opportunity to hear Sotirov and Dowd speak, this will be great for you. Even
> folks who attended the presentation at BH USA might benefit from the
> opportunity to ask questions. You can register for the event at this gnarly
> URL:
>
> http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=117307&s=1&k=77CB8EE0B5BC4EC5AB070B8AB487B085
>
> As always, if you'd like to get onto our mailing list to learn about
> webcasts as they're announced, please drop us a line at
> subscribe-webcasts@...ckhat.com.  You can also have access to all of Black
> Hat's breaking news by following us:
> - Twitter at https://twitter.com/BlackHatUSA2008.
> - Our RSS feed at https://www.blackhat.com/BlackHatRSS.xml
>
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>
> Thank you,
> Jeff Moss
>
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