Recon 2011 Call for papers (CFP) security conference

RECON is a computer security conference with a focus on reverse engineering and advanced exploitation techniques. It is held annually in Montreal, Canada. 

The conference offers a single track of presentations over the span of three days along with technical training sessions held before and after the presentation dates. Technical training varies in length between one and three days.

 

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http://www.recon.cx

REC0N 2011
JULY 8-10
HYATT REGENCY (New venue)
M0NTREAL

+ REC0N 2011
- Conference and training
- No censorship, no sales pitches
- CFP closes May 15, 2011
- Registration is open, only 170 tickets left

+ Accepted Talks
- Sticky Fingers & KBC Custom Shop by Alexandre Gazet of Sogeti/ESEC & Metasm
- Designing a minimal operating system to emulate 32/64bits x86 code snippets, shellcode or malware in Bochs by Elias Bachaalany of Hex-Ray
- Practical C++ decompilation by Igor Skochinsky of Hex-Ray
- RFID Hacking by Milosch Meriac of Bitmanufaktur & OpenPCD
- AndBug -- A Scriptable Debugger for Android's Dalvik Virtual Machine by Scott Dunlop of IOActive
- Memory Eye by Yoann Guillot of Sogeti/ESEC & Metasm

+ Training
- Binary Literacy: Static Reverse Engineering by Rolf Rolles
- Windows Internals for Reverse Engineers by Alex Ionescu
- Bug Hunting and Analysis 0x65 by Aaron Portnoy and Zef Cekaj
- Reverse engineering software protections by Tomislav Pericin and Nicolas Brulez
- The exploit laboratory Advanced Edition by Saumil Shah and Josh Ryder
- Introduction to Penetration Testing Web Applications by David Mirza
- Holistic RFID Hacking by Milosch Meriac

+ Still accepting submissions
- Single track
- 60 & 30 minute time slots
- Lightning talks at the party

+ Primary topics
- Reverse engineering and/or exploitation:
  + Software
    - Malware
    - Protection/DRM
    - Anti-reversing
    - Static/runtime analysis
  + Hardware
    - Embedded devices, consoles, femtocell
    - Cellphones
    - RFID, SDR (software defined radio)
    - Side channel attacks
    - Physical security (cameras, access control)
  + Protocol
    - GSM / CDMA

+ Also of interest to us
- Privacy
  + Anti-censorship
  + Anti-surveillance
  + Anonymity
  + Counter-forensics

+ Anything else elite

+ Please include
- Short summary
- Name or alias
- Contact information
- Bio

+ Send submissions to
- cfp2011 @ recon.cx

+ Speaker / attendee privacy
- Recon does not require speakers to use their real names
- Recon does not provide attendee or speaker information to third-parties (except where necessary for registration/payment)