Black Hat Briefings Japan Speakers Selected!

[Jeff Moss <jmoss () blackhat com>]

Hello Web App Sec readers,

The Black Hat Briefings Japan '06 speakers have been selected. We received many presentations this year and we have 
chosen a broad sampling of topics facing security professionals today, with an emphasis on issues facing Asian Pacific 
region . The <http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-en-schedule.html>schedule is on line now and available 
on our<http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-main.html> Black Hat Japan site in both English and Japanese. 

There will be 2 tracks, over 2 days comprised of renowned information and computer security professionals. We have a 
wide selection of topics this year from 
"<http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-en-speakers.html#Wicherski>Catching Malware" to an updated 
"<http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-en-speakers.html#Rutkowska>Subverting Vista Kernel"
 
Alex Stamos & Zane Lackey - Breaking AJAX Web Applications: Vulns 2.0 in Web 2.0
Jeremiah Grossman -Hacking Intranet websites from the outside: Malware just got a lot more dangerous
Dan Moniz - Six Degrees of XSSploitation
Paul Bohm -Taming Bugs: The art and science of writing secure code
Joanna Rutkowska - Subverting Vista Kernel For Fun And Profit
Kenneth Geers & Alexander Eisen - IPv6 World Update Strategy & Tactics
Heikki Kortti - Input Attack Trees
Mr. Sugiura - Winny P2P security
Darren Bilby - Low Down and Dirty: Anti-Forensic Rootkits
Thorsten Holz & Georg Wicherski - Catching Malware to Detect, Track and Mitigate Botnets
Yuji Hoshizawa - TBD
Scott Stender - Attacking Internationalized Software
    
Please check out the speakers page for updates
<http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-en-speakers.html>http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-en-speakers.html

There you will find Abstracts for the upcoming presentations and get background information on our speakers. 
 
To register visit us on-line at:
<http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-registration/bh-registration.html#Japan.>http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-registration/bh-registration.html#Japan.
Act fast our early bird discount will end September 15th.  We look forward to seeing you at Tokyo, Keio Plaza Hotel, 
October 3-6th, 2006.

More information on this years venue is available at:
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-japan-06/bh-jp-06-en-venue.html . 

Thank you,
Jeff Moss  


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