Come and visit Hacktivity - The Largest Hacker Conference in Central and Eastern Europe (festival)

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World of Ethical Hackers Revs Up -- Hacktivity 2011

On September 17-18, 2011, Hacktivity, the largest hacker conference in 
Central and Eastern Europe will be held again, this time at Millenáris. 
The two-day conference will have a real festival mood, presentations, 
workshops, games, the European finals of the Global CyberLympics, 
hardware hacking, a party in the evening and 1000+ hackers from all over 
the world! Early bird registration ends September 10, save now and buy 
your 2 days ticket for 50-100 EUR. 

Similarly to previous years, this year’s two keynote speakers are real 
stars in their fields of expertise. Saturday will open with 
Hungarian-born Peter Szor who lives in the US and is justly called the 
Father of Virus Protection. His 650-page book „The Art of Computer Virus 
Research and Defense”,  is not only a highly scientific work but also 
the most extensive study written about computer viruses to date. In 1996 
he was hired by the predecessor of F-Secure in Finland, then became a 
leading engineer at Symantec in 1999 and recently joined McAfee. At CARO 
(Computer AntiVirus Researcher's Organization) he worked together with 
many security researchers including John McAfee, Mikko Hypponen or 
Eugene Kaspersky. 

Sunday’s keynote speaker is Raoul „Nobody” Chiesa from Italy, the 
well-known European cyber crime expert. In the 1980s and 90s he was one 
of the first Italian hackers then in 1997 he founded @Mediaservice.net 
Srl, a vendor-neutral security consulting company. Since 2003 he has 
co-operated with the UN agency “UNICRI” (United Nations Interregional 
Crime and Justice Research Institute) and in 2010 he was selected among 
the 30 European top security expert to assist the ENISA Director until 
2012 at the PSG, Permanent Stakeholders Group. 

And that’s not all when it comes to foreign speakers. Vivek 
Ramachandran, founder of  securitytube.net, will come from India, Joseph 
McCray, Air Force veteran and winner of multiple awards by EC-Council, 
will arrive from the US, Ertunga Arsal, SAP expert and Alexander 
Kornbrust, Oracle expert will come from Germany. Pavol Luptak is Head of 
the Slovakian OWASP and Michele Orru, penetration tester for the Royal 
Bank of Scotland will come from Italy. In addition to the renowned 
foreign specialists there will be numerous prominent Hungarian speakers 
as well including Csaba Barta, security consultant at Deloitte Zrt. who 
was voted best speaker at Hackers Halted and who will speak about 
Computer Forensics, László Tóth, internationally recognized database 
security expert also from Deloitte Zrt. and Péter Bodor, Associate 
Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, who will talk about the 
connection between the increasingly popular method of social engineering 
and psychology.

Beside the presentations plenty of other programmes will await 
participants such as interactive hello workshops, hardware hacking 
lockpicking, i.e. unlocking a lock without a key, and ardunio testing, 
games: Wargame, CTF, hacker’s path, ancient computers reborn, a wild 
party Saturday evening and for the first time this year the European 
Finals of the Global CyberLympics at Hacktivity 2011! The global defense 
games organized and launched by EC-Council will have groups of 6 
competing in 7 regions in the world. The finals will be held in the 
United States where the regional winners will be invited. 

At the conference certified (CISA, CISM, CISSP) specialists can collect 
CPE points necessary for their licence. Due to the high interest shown 
in the event the organizers expect 1,000-1,200 participants this year. 
We have a new venue as well: this year’s conference will be held in the 
4590 sqm Hall B of Millenáris where professional infrastructure, a 
restaurant, two large and several smaller rooms will be available. 

Further information, the detailed program and registration: www.hacktivity.com 
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hacktivity
Twitter: twitter.com/hacktivity2011


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Hacktivity - The Largest Hacker Conference in Central and Eastern Europe
17-18 September 2011, Budapest, Hungary

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