Call For Sponsors

If you want to become the CONFidence 2.0 2010 sponsor please contact with Jakub Koziol or Andrzej Targosz.

First Come First Served: Pay for the chosen sponsorship package till the end of September and you will be given a 15% discount for the package. Do not wait – decide to attend the conference right now.

Hacktivity 2010 Grows Into International Conference

Hacktivity 2010 will be held on September 18-19, 2010 in Dürer Garden. One of the largest hacker conferences in Eastern and Central Europe will be attended by 1024 people including plenty of foreigners as simultaneous interpretation will be provided for all lectures for the first time.

Two days, 28 lectures, 2 workshops, 3 trainings, one round-table discussion, Wargame, Capture the Flag, Hack the Vendor games with HUF 100,000 rewards, Wall of the Sheep, Hardware workshop with Mitch Altman, beer, hot dog, pizza, good conversation, wall climbing all day long and a brilliant party in the evening. This is how the 2010 programme of the oldest independent Hungarian IT security event can be described in a single sentence.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the event will be highly diverse. Saturday’s keynote speaker is none other than Bruce Schneier from the US, one of the world’s most famous IT security specialists. Bruce will give an opening speech in the morning and close the day at the book presentation where he will sign his book Schneier on Security, co-published in Hungarian by Kancellár.hu Zrt. and HVG Publishers. Sunday’s keynote speaker is “FX” Lindner, co-author of the hacker cult book “How To Steal A Continent” and the first to write a Cisco IOS Exploit in 2001. Oracle guru Alexander Kornbrust will be present again and a new virus expert, Robert Lipovski from ESET laboratory will come from Bratislava. This year the legal speakers will have their own section and there will be 3 lectures giving us a glimpse of the heroic age of IT. Other subjects will include the „use” of wifi hotspots, IT SEC Compliance, password cracking and egghunting. Two workshops will complement the programme where instead of simple presentations speakers will provide participants with an opportunity to try the presented techniques on laptops right away.

In the lobby participants looking for challenges can play individually or in groups. „Wargame”, the break-in test game will be on again consisting of courses with different difficulty levels. Last year’s highly popular „Hack The Vendor” will also continue with new vendors in the ring. The objective of the game is to test one or more IT security products, offered by our sponsors, or in fact hack them legally on the conference site. Our aim is to draw specialists’ attention to certain products of a vendor and to the successful hacker’s talent in an unorthodox way. There will also be a reward, of course, HUF 100,000 in both games! For the first time a new team game will be launched. The concept of „Capture the Flag” is probably familiar: the participant corporate teams made up of 2-4 persons will have ten hours to gain distance control over some computers with vulnerable configurations as often found in real life. The winner will take home a reward as well as Check Point’s „Wanderer” award.

And there’s more to come as in a quiet corner Mitch Altman will be holding a hardware workshop! Mitch who can be justly called a hardware hacker will arrive from San Francisco along with his formidable electronic knowledge and tools to weld and create special IT equipment together with the participants.

Of course there will be relaxation and partying as usual. Kancellar.hu will set up a climbing wall and in the evening the Balabit continent party will be held again with drink tours and rock concerts.

Due to our Hacktivity-CONFidence partnership we would like to inform that all CONFidence participants can use a 20% discount coupon code -> CONF-10

CONFidence 2.0 2010 Invitation

We would like to offer you a chance to attend CONFidence 2.0 2010 http://201002.confidence.org.pl – the 8th edition of the international IT security conference, which will be held on 29-30th November in Prague, Czech Republic. CONFidence started in 2005 as a project created by a group of polish enthusiast committed to improving the security of IT applications. Since those early years it has evolved into the largest meeting of hackers in Central-East Europe that annually gathers almost 500 participants: IT security professionals from government, industry, banking sector and academia as well as researchers and developers.

Since 2006 CONFidence assembles not only the best specialists from Poland but also attendees and number one speakers from all around the world. Every year our attendees come from most European countries as well as US to see such experts as Bruce Schneier, Dan Kaminsky, Jacob Appelbaum, Daniel Mende, David Hulton, Chris Palmer, Jesse Burns, Shawn Merdinger, Anton Chuvakin, Richard Bejtlich, Raoul Chiesa, Felix Lindner, Alexander Kornbrust, Dinis Cruz, Joanna Rutkowska, Gynvael Coldwind and many other excellent speakers. CONFidence is much more than just a conference, it is an ongoing project driven by the security community.

We invite you to visit conference website: http://201002.confidence.org.pl

Registration can be made here: http://rejestracja.confidence.org.pl/

Please remember about #CONFidence_conference hashtag active on Twitter and BLIP.

Details about Call For Papers can be found here: http://201002.confidence.org.pl/call-for-papers

All people interested in othe forms of cooperation than attending, please contact: jakub.koziol{@}proidea.org.pl We are waiting for you questions and suggestions.

Please forward the information about the conference to all the people who might be interested in the CONFidence issues.

Registration for CONFidence 2.0 2010 already open

Registration for CONFidence 2.0 2010 conference can be made here.

The conference fee includes:

attending the lectures;

conference materials;

coffee breaks during two days of the event.

Conference Fee:

95 EUR students until 31st August 2010

125 EUR until 31st August 2010

125 EUR students until 30th September 2010

150 EUR until 30th September 2010

150 EUR students until 31st October 2010

175 EUR until 31st October 2010

175 EUR students last minute CONFidence

250 EUR last minute CONFidence

Information: TAX is included in the conference fee.

PLNOG5 Invitation

We would like to inform that this autumn all the network administrators, employees responsible for infrastructure, monitoring, maintaining and effectiveness of the networks as well as those who make the decisions of implementing new network solutions, will gather in Krakow (Poland) at the next PLNOG Meeting. PLNOG 2010 is the fifth edition of the only Polish conference dedicated entirely to telecommunication network issues. This year’s meeting will take place on 21-22 October, 2010 in Krakow area.

The conference is a part of Polish Network Operators’ Group initiative that was started to enable effective cooperation between telecommunication and IT companies in Poland. The goal is to share knowledge and exchange experiences about network technologies and implementations. PLNOG takes the best example of initiatives connecting network operators in Europe, USA, Asia and Middle East. PLNOG is much more than just a conference. Fifth edition of the PLNOG Meeting gives an unique chance to meet specialists, who work in companies engaged in building and developing Internet in Poland. PLNOG Conferences attendees work for both, the biggest players on global telecom market, as well as local providers.

The participation of almost 400 people in the fourth PLNOG Meeting in March of 2010 and their suggestions to organize event twice a year, show that PLNOG meets the needs of Polish network operators and that it has created an important meeting point for those working in the network industry. During previous editions of PLNOG Committee has invited several foreign guests, who shared their knowledge and experience. We should especially mention Paul Vixie, Stefano Previdi, John Evans, Fredy Kuenzler, Christian Maar, Arno Meulenkamp and Randy Bush.

We invite you to visit conference website: http://plnog.pl/

Registration can be made here: http://rejestracja.plnog.pl/

For our frequent CONFidence attendees we have prepared discount code “plnog5_confidence“, which allows the 20 % discount.

Please remember about #PLNOG hashtag active on Twitter and BLIP.

Details about Call For Papers can be found here: http://plnog.pl/spotkanie-5-pazdziernik/prelegenci/

All people interested in othe forms of cooperation than attendance, please contact: jakub.koziol{@}proidea.org.pl We are waiting for you questions and suggestions.

Please forward the information about the conference to all the people who might be interested in the PLNOG issues.

Call For Papers Open

We invite all of you to send the proposed topics and abstracts of presentation till the 30th of September. Please, remember that CONFidence is an open, international conference and all presentations should be given in English. If you want to give your lecture in Polish, please send an e-mail to the address given below.

The answer to CfP should include:

• name, last name and e-mail address of the potential speaker
• speaker’s short bio, describing experience and skills
• speaker’s place of residence
• presentation topic with short description of proposed lecture (no more than 500 words)
• non-standard technical requirements

Applications should be sent to Andrew Targosz till 30th of September, 2010.

We are especially interested in presentations concerning:

• 3G/4G, SS7, WLAN, RFID, Bluetooth Security
• Analysis and reverse engineering of malicious code
• Analysis of vulnerability, attacks and defence against networks, hardware, software
• Virtualization and operating systems security
• Data recovery, Forensic and Incident Response
• Physical security
• Firewall technologies
• Web applications security and cryptographic

Caution! We do not accept marketing, non-technical presentations aimed at presenting and selling any products. If you lecture presents company or its product, please do not send it!

CONFidence 2010 Summary

We would like to thank everyone for participating in the 7th edition of the CONFidence conference. We have been building and developing security environment in Poland for 6 years. We are pleased that during last CONFidence meeting there were even more participants than in the previous year. We hope that CONFidence 2010 has allowed you to broaden your knowledge, and to meet interesting people who share common interests.

We would like to thank the participants for coming and speakers for sending the topics. 7th edition of CONFidence would not have taken place if not for support of our sponsors. We would like to sincerely thank our Platinium Sponsor – Fortinet company. Also a major contribution in organizing the conference had our Gold Sponsors – ESET, Mediarecovery and iStream. Silver sponsor of the meeting was Safecomputing company. We also thank the following companies: Compendium, Access Data and ISEC. Specially thanks to Jake Appelbaum for the evangelization of CONFidence abroad and Nick Farr for bringing Hackers on a Plane to Krakow. We can not forget about our media patrons who help us promote the conference. Detailed information about companies and sites involved in the creation of CONFidence can be found at http://2010.confidence.org.pl

The conference was opened by a show of dancers juggling with lasers. Flaming balls of fire had to be replaced by electronic trinkets. This was due to a lack of fire permits, for all firefighters in Krakow were involved in saving the city from flooding. The first lecture about TOR and Internet filtering was conducted by well known Jacob Appelbaum. Throughout the day we heard many interesting lectures on security of Microsoft Windows, Security of Software, Phishing, PKI and Security of Mobile Phones. The first day of the conference was ended by Dan Kaminsky, who presented the current threats in the global World Wide Web.

As we could find out CONFidence was not only lectures, but also a full day event with many attractions and the possibility of a more loosely discussions in the corridors. Throughout the day, you could try your skills at PS3 and Wii consoles. An additional attraction were the RETRO games, whose rich history we could hear during evening lecture. We would also like to thank all those who helped HFC and took part in the Hackers for Charity roulette. Congratulations to the winners. During the CONFidence conference attendees could also take part in the Crackme competition. The fastest needed only four hours to solve the problem given by the Gold Sponsor of the CONFidence Conference – ESET company. ESET’s second contest was extended until the end of June. Details can be found on pages CONFidence.

After the first day of the conference, there was an integration event held in Kijow Cinema. Attraction of the evening was the Forti-Tour – walk around the pubs. Participants had to visit three neighboring pubs, and then get back to Kijow-Centre. In each place there was a free beer waiting for them, of course if they knew the answer to the question about Fortinet company. Just before midnight, there was Powerpoint Karaoke, which was led by Ela Jasinska. Powerpoint Karaoke idea is to conduct a short presentation about the previously unknown topic, with no preparation. We congratulate the speakers creativity and ingenuity, and thank you for providing us with a large dose of laughter.

After a short and sleepless night the second day of the conference began. For all the participants waited mineral water and specialist medical assistance. The second day was another dose of interesting topics of lectures and workshops that provide participants with extensive information on IT security, or lack of it. People could attend lectures related to WLAN, reverse engineering, IPv6 security, security vulnerabilities in Windows and hacking games. The high level of lectures has provided a large number of participants, who were until the very end. The last stage was the prize drawing. We congratulate the lucky winners. The unofficial end of the conference was Game Over Party which was held in one of Krakow’s pubs. Photos from the conference are available at: http://2010.confidence.org.pl.

At this point I would like to warmly thank those who organized the CONFidence conference and were taking care of it during those two extremely busy days. Big thanks to all employees of the PROIDEA Foundation for Supporting IT Education, hostesses, announcers, helpers and support for audio / video. CONFidence 2010 was one of the best hackers conference that took place this year in the world.

See you at the next 8th edition of CONFidence in November 2010 in Prague:) All those who do not want to leave our great country, we would like to inform that the next edition of Krakow’s CONFidence will be held in May 2011. Everyone interested in cooperation concerning CONFidence please contact via e-mail: jakub.koziol{@}proidea.org.pl