The Black Hat Briefings
The Black Hat Briefings are a series of highly technical information security conferences that bring together thought leaders from all facets of the infosec world – from the corporate and government sectors to academic and even underground researchers. The environment is strictly vendor-neutral and focused on the sharing of practical insights and timely, actionable knowledge. Black Hat remains the best and biggest event of its kind, unique in its ability to define tomorrow’s information security landscape. This year's conference is scheduled for August 2-7 at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
http://www.blackhat.com/index.html
DEFCON
DEFCON is the world's largest annual hacker convention, held every year in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2007, there were over 6,000 people in attendance. Many of the attendees at DEFCON include computer security professionals, journalists, lawyers, federal government employees, crackers, and hackers with a general interest in computer code and computer architecture. DefCon16 is scheduled for August 8-10 at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
https://www.defcon.org/
HOPE Conference
The Last HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference, held July 18-20 in New York City, brought together a wide range of participants and speakers for three days of panels and events involving a wide range of activities, from information manipulation in all its forms to lock picking, bio-engineering and industrial espionage. The Next Hope Conference is scheduled for sometime in 2010.
http://www.thelasthope.org
The Metasploit Project
Metasploit provides useful information to people who perform penetration testing, IDS signature development, and exploit research. This project was created to provide information on exploit techniques and to create a useful resource for exploit developers and security professionals. The tools and information on this site are provided for legal security research and testing purposes only. Metasploit is a community project managed by Metasploit LLC.
http://www.metasploit.com
The RBN Exploit Blog on the Russian Business Network
The Russian Business Network (RBN) has long been known for its bulletproof hosting and its control of botnets such as Storm. Apart from the obvious example of an RBN “hired gun” Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attack on Estonia in May 2007 many have attempted to comprehend and link the RBN’s usage for botnets. Within this article we shed light via several documented examples extorting potential clients into the use of their “specialized” hosting services by the use of DDos, and a further example of RBN’s ecommerce.
http://rbnexploit.blogspot.com/
