Black And White Ball (Con) - March Press Release

For Immediate Release

Contacts

Mark Anderson
[email protected]
+353 - (0)87-798-5482

Mark Hinge
[email protected]
+44 - (0)07908-871-091

WHITEDUST.NET ANNOUNCES THE FIRST ANNUAL BLACK AND WHITE BALL


Call for Papers Ends March 30th, 2007

http://www.theblackandwhiteball.co.uk/ -- Whitedust.net, the leading
online source of unbiased and uncut security information, today announced
the first annual Black & White Ball.

Presented in a unique two track format, The Ball will run for 4 days the
first two bringing the latest in hacker techniques and attacks, the last
two presenting the cutting-edge of security defence mechanisms and
strategies.

Running from September 18th to 21st the Black & White Ball will present
the latest information and network security research. Covering topics
such as network penetration, malware generation, hacker methodologies,
0-day attacks, forensic and anti-forensic methods, the Ball will bring
together the leading minds from both the White Hat sphere (CSO's,
Programmers, Security Architects) and the Black Hat sphere (hackers,
crackers, virus writers, digital miscreants).

The keynote speakers were also announced today - Oxblood Ruffin from the
infamous Cult of the Dead Cow hacking group will present the black hat
track keynote speech while Richard Thieme, the world renowned digitial
philosopher, will present the white hat track keynote.

Ticket sales will begin on May 1st when the full speaker line-up has
been confirmed.

For more information about the Black & White Ball, be sure to visit the
website at http://www.theblackandwhiteball.co.uk/ or direct any queries
to [email protected]

For press registration, contact Mark Hinge at +44 - (0)07908-871-091 or
via email at [email protected]

If you're interested in presenting at the conference be sure to read
the Call for Papers on the website and send in submissions before
April 30th 2007.

About Whitedust.net

The Whitedust Security Portal is an attempt to bring back the now
forgotten way to repaying the community by putting material of interest
back into it. While many diverse sources of security news and articles
are available on the internet, few of those sources are specifically
targeted at the security community and none of them are unbiased. Known
for bringing quality security news, articles and resources to IS
professionals all over the world, the Whitedust name stands for
integrity bringing cutting edge and uncut information security news
since 2005.

For more information, visit their Web site at http://www.whitedust.net/

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Mark Hinge

Operations Director
Whitedust.net
www.whitedust.net
[email protected]
+44 (0) 7908871091

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