Toorcon and Bluehat: two recent securityconferences

This year ToorCon is organizing an informal free & invite-only get together of around 100 security professionals and hackers that have helped make ToorCon what it is today. You can already find some of the presentations of Toorcon on their website. Some of the topics:

Dan Griffin, Hacking Windows Vista Security
dr.raid & Postmodern, Social networking sites: covert channels for Botnets
Pusscat, Byakugan - Automating Exploitation
Aaron Portnoy, RPC Auditing Tools and Techniques

BlueHat v5: The Paradox of Innovation: BlueHat is Microsoft's own little hacker con. Hosted it twice a year -- the sessions were all about innovation in security research. The topics were:

	Death by 1,000 Cuts
	Breaking and Breaking Into Microsoft Security Tools
	Emerging Mobile Security Problems, or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows Mobile
	Your Tamper-Resistant Hardware Makes a Great Sport for Hackers
	Your Underground Vulnerability Economy