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Events for 2008
Event
Date
Location
Notes
COSAC 2008
Sep 21 - 25
Naas, Ireland
MAAWG 14th general meeting
Sep 22 - 24
Miami, FL, USA
Meeting open to members only.
VB2008
Oct 01 - 03
Ottawa, Canada
VB2008 - the 18th Virus Bulletin International Conference - will be held 1-3 October 2008 in Ottawa, Canada. Enquiries relating to sponsorship or any other form of participation should be sent to vb2008@virusbtn.com.
SecTor
Oct 07 - 08
Toronto, Canada
'Illuminating the Black Art of Security. SecTor brings the world's brightest (and darkest) minds together to identify, discuss, dissect and debate the latest digital threats facing corporations today.'
Malware 2008
Oct 07 - 08
Alexandria, VA, USA
'The conference is designed to bring together experts from industry, academia and government to present and discuss, in an open environment, the latest advances and discoveries in the field of malicious and unwanted software, the techniques, economics and legal issues behind their use, and the methods to detect and control them.'
Black Hat Japan 2008
Oct 07 - 10
Tokyo, Japan
Net Focus UK 2008
Oct 08 - 09
Brighton, UK
'Net Focus UK deals with all the soft policy issues (security, personnel, compliance, data privacy, business risk, e-commerce risk) that major companies are struggling with.'
APWG eCrime Researchers Summit
Oct 15 - 16
Atlanta, GA, USA
'eCrime '08 will bring together academic researchers, security practitioners and law enforcement representatives to discuss all aspects of electronic crime and ways to prevent it.'
SecureLondon Workshop on Computer Forensics
Oct 21
London, UK
'This one-day workshop will focus on Computer Forensics. Attendees will be given an introduction into the standards, legislation, regulation and principles surrounding this area. Sessions will engage in workshop-style scenarios, the pros and cons of case studies and key issues to be aware of during Crisis Management. Insight will be provided into the process of extraction, analysis and evidence as well as taking a look at mitigation and remedial measures available.'
RSA Europe 2008
Oct 27 - 29
London, UK
'This year the conference theme celebrates the influence of Alan Mathison Turing, British cryptographer, mathematician, logician, philosopher, biologist and 'the father of modern computer science'.'
Hack in the Box Security Conference 2008
Oct 27 - 30
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
'This year's event will see the introduction of a third track to the conference programme called the 'HITB Labs'. These new hands-on sessions are designed to give attendees a closer and deeper understanding of various security issues from physical security bypass methods to the security of RFID and other wireless based technologies.'
Hacker Halted Malaysia
Nov 03 - 06
Selangor, Malaysia
Hacker Halted Malaysia 2008, an international platform on the hottest topics in Information Security, will comprise of 2-Day Pre-Conference Workshop by Master Trainers and 2-Day Conference by renowned IT Security experts. It is the 11th Hacker Halted worldwide and will run from November 3rd to 6th at Sunway Convention Centre, Selangor.
CSI 2008
Nov 15 - 21
National Harbor, MD, USA
Registration will open June 2008.
AVAR 2008
Dec 10 - 12
New Delhi, India
'The 11th Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers International Conference will be hosted by Quick Heal Technologies Pvt in New Delhi, India.'
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