(I guess I've been bitten by Choate. I hope the antidote is working). -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO : N48 10'07'' E011 33'53'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 00:22:26 -0400 From: B.K. DeLong <bkdelong@blackhat.com> To: press@blackhat.com Subject: Black Hat Briefings 2001 Conference Speakers Release For Immediate Release Contacts B.K. DeLong press@blackhat.com +1.617.877.3271 BLACK HAT BRIEFINGS 2001 SESSIONS HIGHLIGHT NEW COMPUTER SECURITY TOOLS, TECHNOLOGIES AND TACTICS Top Industry Gurus will Talk About Key Problem and Offer Solutions to Todays Security Issues http://www.blackhat.com/ -- Black Hat Inc. announced today over 40 different speaker sessions for this summer's Black Hat Briefings and Training 2001, the annual conference and workshop designed to help computer professionals better understand the security risks to their computer and information infrastructures by potential threats. This year's show will focus on hot topics including Honey Pot servers, secure programming techniques, incident response, Web-based vulnerabilities and Distributed Denial of Service attacks at the Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino in the heart of Las Vegas, 11 through 12 July, 2001. Top-notch speakers will deliver to the conference's core audience of IT & network security experts, consultants and administrators the newest developments on the vital security issues facing organizations using large networks with a mix of operating systems. "Our goal is to present a vendor-neutral environment where conference attendees can receive key intelligence in a face-to-face environment with the people developing the tools used by and against hackers," says Jeff Moss, founder of Black Hat Inc. "Our speakers discuss the strategies involved in correcting existing problems and inform attendees on upcoming issues, preparing them for the future." The lineup of Black Hat Briefings presenters for 2001 include: -- James Bamford, author of NSA books "The Puzzle Palace" & "Body of Secrets", will discuss some of his key research tactics that lead to his exposes about the most secret government agency in the United States. -- Richard Clarke is the senior U.S. government official responsible for cyber security policy. He was appointed by the President as the first national coordinator for security, infrastructure protection and counter-terrorism. He chairs the U.S. government's committees on cyber security, continuity of operations, counter-terrorism, domestic preparedness and international crime. -- Steve Christey, Lead INFOSEC Engineer in the Security and Information Operations Division at The MITRE Corporation will discuss the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) concept (naming standard for computer security vulnerabilities that hackers exploit to break into systems) and the challenges that MITRE faced trying to meet the criteria created for the concept. -- Martin Roesch, founder of Sourcefire Inc and author of the open source "Snort" Network Intrusion Detection System will talk about the new features in version 1.8 of the system (including features to improve it's enterprise scalability, resistance to anti-NIDS attacks, and integration with other security products and protocols) as well as the architecture and evolution of the next-generation Snort 2.0 system, is currently in the planning stages. -- Lance Spitzner, founder of the Honey Net Project and the group's 25 members will present the resulting research from their endeavors and discuss the goals of the project, how they accomplished their research and what they have discovered. -- Jose Nazario, a Biochemistry Ph.D. student from Cleveland, Ohio will discuss the future of Internet worm viruses and how the current crop (Ramen, Melissa, ILoveYou) are just the tip of the iceberg. Nazario applies the morphing approaches of biological systems with computing, and shows how new threats and adaptive defense strategies emerge. -- Dr. Ian Goldberg from Zero Knowledge Systems (known for cracking the first RSA Secret Key Challenge in three and a half hours, breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL encryption, and breaking the cryptography in the GSM cellular phone standard) will be discussing the "highly flawed" Wired Equivalent Privacy in the 802.11 wireless network standard. -- Brian Martin, founder and staff member of Attrition.org will cover the lessons learned and insight gained from monitoring the world of Web site defacements including reactions from the defacers themselves, system administrators, law enforcement and journalists as well as identification and analysis of several trends and statistics. Cryptography expert Bruce Schneier and Technology Futurist Richard Thieme will be giving this year's lunchtime presentations. Black Hat Inc. will also conduct computer security training for several different topics the two days prior to the briefings - 9 through 10 July. Subjects include: -- NT Network Intrusion Workshop -- Complete Windows 2000 Security -- Advanced Scanning with ICMP -- Reverse Engineering and Security Auditing with IDA The instructors for the training segment of this year's Black Hat are some of the top experts in their field and are fully active in the computer security community. You won't find most of these speakers anywhere else and these handpicked security gurus will train participants in understanding the real threats to any network and how to keep them from being exploited. To register for BlackHat Briefings, visit the Web site at http://www.blackhat.com. Direct any conference-related questions to info@blackhat.com. For press registration, contact B.K. DeLong at +1.617.877.3271 or via email at press@blackhat.com. About Black Hat Inc. Black Hat Inc. was originally founded in 1997 by Jeff Moss to fill the need for computer security professionals to better understand the security risks and potential threats to their information infrastructures and computer systems. Black Hat accomplishes this by assembling a group of vendor-neutral security professionals and having them speak candidly about the problems businesses face and their solutions to those problems. Black Hat Inc. produces 5 briefing & training events a year on 3 different continents. Speakers and attendees travel from all over the world to meet and share in the latest advances in computer security. For more information, visit their Web site at http://www.blackhat.com ### -- B.K. DeLong Press Coordinator Black Hat Briefings +1.617.877.3271 bkdelong@blackhat.com http://www.blackhat.com http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork