Wednesday, January 19, 2011

"A ShmooCon Preview"

From McAfee blog:

It’s always tough to get a ticket for Washington D.C.’s ShmooCon hacker conference. Just over 1,200 tickets were available in three rounds of ticket sales for the January 28-30 event. It’s a sign of the conference’s popularity that each round sold out in under 10 seconds. At about a third of the size of a larger conference like Black Hat, it’s much easier to talk to the speakers without fighting with a crowd. Past years have had good presentations on mobile phone security and this year is no exception.

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This year there are nearly twice as many smartphone-related talks as at last year’s Shmoocon. It looks like the start of an interesting year in smartphone and mobile threat research.

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