Anti-malware events calendar
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Events for 2012
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Location |
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| CONFidence 2012 |
May 23 - 24 |
Krakow, Poland |
 'CONFidence is an annual IT security conference that will take place on 23-24th May 2012 in Krakow, Poland for the 10th time! The best speakers, latest issues, laid-back atmosphere and Krakow crazy night life - that is why CONFidence has become a meeting point of the hacker community in Europe. This year, apart from the technical part a special SpyGames game will be run. Attendees will participate in real spy contests including sneaking past sensors, lockpicking, and will have to rescue a prisoner from a bunker. Find out more on the website!' |
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| EC-Council Summit Boston |
June 04 - 07 |
Boston, MA, USA |
'The EC-Council Summit (formerly known as CAST Summit) is designed with one purpose in mind: to enrich security professionals with the skills and knowledge surrounding the ever-evolving information security landscape. Attendees get to choose from a selection of highly technical and advanced training workshops led by subject matter experts and industry practitioners, covering essential security topics such as penetration testing, cryptography, network defence, application security, mobile hacking and forensics, crimeware attribution, etc. The Summit concludes with a one-day training seminar that is specially designed to comprise a few mini-lectures, and allows for participants to actually learn, and not just listen or be rushed through a short presentation.' |
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| MAAWG 25th General Meeting |
June 05 - 07 |
Berlin, Germany |
MAAWG meetings, which are open to members and invited guests only, are multiple-track events and generally attended by 200 to 300 participants. Leading industry experts, researchers and public policy officials address such diverse topics as bot mitigation practices, social networking abuse and pending legislation. Each three-day meeting with half a day of optional training is an exceptional opportunity to discuss the latest in messaging security with other professionals in a focused environment of working sessions and educational panels. For questions and invite requests go to http://www.maawg.org/contact_form' |
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| Security Summit Rome |
June 06 - 07 |
Rome, Italy |
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| EC-Council Summit San Antonio |
June 11 - 14 |
San Antonio, CA, USA |
'The EC-Council Summit (formerly known as CAST Summit) is designed with one purpose in mind: to enrich security professionals with the skills and knowledge surrounding the ever-evolving information security landscape. Attendees get to choose from a selection of highly technical and advanced training workshops led by subject matter experts and industry practitioners, covering essential security topics such as penetration testing, cryptography, network defence, application security, mobile hacking and forensics, crimeware attribution, etc. The Summit concludes with a one-day training seminar that is specially designed to comprise a few mini-lectures, and allows for participants to actually learn, and not just listen or be rushed through a short presentation.' |
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| NISC12 |
June 13 - 15 |
Cumbernauld, Scotland |
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| 24th Annual FIRST Conference on Computer Security and Incident Response |
June 17 - 22 |
Malta |
'The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) is a global non-profit organization dedicated to bringing together computer security incident response teams (CSIRTs) and includes response teams from over 214 corporations, government bodies, universities and other institutions spread across the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.' |
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| 9th CISO Summit & Roundtable |
June 27 - 29 |
Prague, Czech Republic |
'Europe's best-loved event for Chief Information Security Officers and Directors of Information Security and Risk Management, will drive new thinking and question what the future holds, assess current challenges and learn how peers are preparing to defend tomorrow.' |
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| Black Hat USA |
July 21 - 26 |
Las Vegas, NV, USA |
'Black Hat USA will take place 21-26 July 2012 in Las Vegas, NV, USA. DEFCON 20 follows the Black Hat event, taking place 26-29 July, also in Las Vegas. For more information see http://www.blackhat.com/ and http://www.defcon.org/.' |
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| 21st USENIX Security Symposium |
Aug 08 - 10 |
Bellevue, WA, USA |
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| EC-Council Summit San Jose |
August 20 - 23 |
San Jose, CA, USA |
'The EC-Council Summit (formerly known as CAST Summit) is designed with one purpose in mind: to enrich security professionals with the skills and knowledge surrounding the ever-evolving information security landscape. Attendees get to choose from a selection of highly technical and advanced training workshops led by subject matter experts and industry practitioners, covering essential security topics such as penetration testing, cryptography, network defence, application security, mobile hacking and forensics, crimeware attribution, etc. The Summit concludes with a one-day training seminar that is specially designed to comprise a few mini-lectures, and allows for participants to actually learn, and not just listen or be rushed through a short presentation.' |
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| TakeDownCon Baltimore |
August 25 - 30 |
Baltimore, MD, USA |
'TakeDownCon will bring together information security researchers and technical experts, both the brightest and darkest, from the corporate and government sectors to academic as well the underground, and make it into one of the world's premier infosec events where the latest security threats are presented and debated, and vulnerabilities are disclosed and scrutinized.' |
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| SOURCE Conference Seattle |
Sept 13 - 14 |
Seattle, WA, USA |
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| VB2012 |
Sept 26 - 28 |
Dallas, TX, USA |
 VB2012 will be held at the Fairmont Dallas hotel in Dallas, TX, USA. Further details will be announced in due course - in the meantime, please contact conference@virusbtn.com for information on sponsorship of the event or any other form of participation. |
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| Infosecurity Russia 2012 |
Sept 26 - 28 |
Moscow, Russia |
 'IX International Exhibition for Information Security and IT industry. The exhibition categories of Information Security, Storage Expo and Documation have been extended to include Cloud Computing, Mobile Applications, IT Support and Help Desk, Contact Centres, IT Infrastructure as individual categories.' |
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| Security Summit Verona |
October 04 |
Verona, Italy |
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| Ruxcon |
October 20 - 21 |
Melbourne, Australia |
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| MAAWG 26th General Meeting |
October 23 - 25 |
Baltimore, MD, USA |
MAAWG meetings, which are open to members and invited guests only, are multiple-track events and generally attended by 200 to 300 participants. Leading industry experts, researchers and public policy officials address such diverse topics as bot mitigation practices, social networking abuse and pending legislation. Each three-day meeting with half a day of optional training is an exceptional opportunity to discuss the latest in messaging security with other professionals in a focused environment of working sessions and educational panels. For questions and invite requests go to http://www.maawg.org/contact_form' |
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| Hacker Halted USA (Miami) |
October 25 - 31 |
Miami, FL, USA |
 'The flagship information security conference series of EC-Council, with its objective being to raise awareness towards increased education and ethics in Information Security. Since 2004, Hacker Halted has been organized in world class cities such as Miami, Myrtle Beach, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Taipei, Guangzhou, Cairo, etc.' |
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| TakeDownCon Las Vegas |
December 01 - 06 |
Las Vegas, NV, USA |
'TakeDownCon will bring together information security researchers and technical experts, both the brightest and darkest, from the corporate and government sectors to academic as well the underground, and make it into one of the world's premier infosec events where the latest security threats are presented and debated, and vulnerabilities are disclosed and scrutinized.' |
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Events for 2013
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Date |
Location |
Notes |
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| VB2013 |
Oct 02 - 04 |
Berlin, Germany |
 VB2013 will be held at the Maritim hotel in Berlin, Germany. Further details will be announced in due course - in the meantime, please contact conference@virusbtn.com for information on sponsorship of the event or any other form of participation. |
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