Black Hat New Years Updates (Free Stuff, too!)

[Jeff Moss <jmoss () blackhat com>]

Hello Firewall Wizards readers,

Here are some announcements from Black Hat to keep you busy in the new year!

- The Call for Papers and conference registration is now open for the Black Hat DC Training and Briefings.
- The Call for Papers and conference registration for Black Hat Europe in open.
- Registration for the summer Black Hat USA conference is now open!
- Presentations from Black Hat Japan are now on-line.
- Presentations including audio and video from Black Hat USA is now on-line.

UPCOMING CONFERENCES:
Black Hat DC 2007 Briefings & Training will be February 26 to March 1, held at the Sheraton Crystal City hotel in 
Arlington Virginia.

Register early to take advantage of our early bird rate and save when you register for the Briefings before January 1st.
Papers and requests to speak will be received and reviewed from October 1, 2006 until January 5, 2007. We strongly 
suggest that you submit earlier than later, since we will close the CFP early if we receive enough quality submissions 
to fill the slots. Please submit using the new on-line system at:
https://cfp.blackhat.com/ 

If you want to submit to the Call for Papers please note Black Hat does not accept product or vendor related pitches, 
or voodoo. If your talk is a veiled advertisement for a new product or service your company is offering, please do not 
submit. If your talk relies on voodoo techniques or tools you are not willing to share, then you should rethink the 
benefit the audience will get from sitting through your presentation.

Black Hat is launching its new electronic CFP submissions server with this announcement. You will be able to upload 
your submissions, make changes, select your co-presenters, etc. This system will allow you to submit multiple 
presentations as well as be able to change your info should you need to. This new submission and review process will 
enable the future possibility of peer review and on-line information exchange. For now we are looking forward to seeing 
your submissions and would like to hear any feedback you have on this new submission process.

Topic Focus for Black Hat DC 2007:
We would like presenters to think about offensive and defensive computer security operations and the application of 
your expertise and research. Think about its application in an operational process that can be defensive or offense, 
large enterprise or distributed organized criminal group, military or civilian. This is not a requirement to submit, 
but we want some differentiation for the DC conference. Thinking in terms of operational applicability will steer 
content in a direction we hope the DC audience will appreciate. 

Dates to Remember for Black Hat DC:
Call for Papers closes: January 5, 2007. <-- Extended to the 5th.
Early Bird registration rate ends December 31.
Regular registration rate ends February 18th.
More information regarding speaker requirements and our guidelines for this years submissions available at 
http://www.blackhat.com/

Black Hat Europe 2007 Briefings & Training will be March 27 to March 30, held at the Hotel Movenpick in Amsterdam.
Dates to Remember for Black Hat Europe:
Call for Papers will open November 1, 2006 and close February 1st, 2007.
Registration will open November 1, 2006 and the Early Bird rate ends January 12, 2007.
On-line registration closes March 18, 2007.

Black Hat USA 2007 Briefings & Training will be July 28 to August 2, held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
On-line Registration for Briefings now open. Training registration will open February 15.
Call for Papers will open February 15.
Hotel Reservations now open.

Black Hat Japan 2007 Briefings & Training will be October 23-26, Tokyo, Japan
On-line Registration will open July 1.
Call for Papers will open May 1.

FREE STUFF:
Black Hat Japan 2006 Presentations are now available on-line!
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-media-archives/bh-archives-2006.html#AS_2006
Presentation topics available include: Anti-Forensic Root kits, The Art and Science of Writing Secure Code, Hacking 
Intranet web sites from the Outside, Breaking AJAX Web Applications, Subverting Vista Kernel and more! Audio of the 
sessions will be encoded and added on-line in the next month as well.
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-en-speakers.html

We also have the presentation material from USA 2006 show on-line, and we anticipate we will have audio and video of 
the presentations available for download within the next month. To view the entire media archives:
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-multimedia-archives-index.html

Black Hat USA Briefings audio and video are now available to download in an iPod friendly format:
http://www.blackhat.com/podcast/bh-usa-06-audio.rss
http://www.blackhat.com/podcast/bh-usa-06-video.rss

The General Black Hat RSS feed:
http://www.blackhat.com/BlackHatRSS.xml

Thank you,
Jeff Moss

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