(Melbourne, Australia) SecureCon 2006

I'm forwarding this on behalf of another group. It's an inexpensive
conference which may be of interest to members in Australia or those
of you looking for a junket in a hot country (it's definitely warm
here at the moment).

Administrivia: Although I live in the same town as this conference, I
am not doing it for that reason. In general, I do not mind one or two
posts per conference as long as the conference has some relevance to
webappsec, where "one or two" posts is like the CFP, a post for early
bird registrations, and at most a last minute announcement such as this.

thanks,
Andrew

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  SECURECon 2006 - http://securecon.unimelb.edu.au
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  February 8-10 2006 Economics & Commerce Building, Melbourne University

  REGISTER HERE --> http://securecon.unimelb.edu.au/register

  WORKSHOPS - Wednesday 8th February:
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  Cost: $50.00 AUD per half-day session

  By popular demand the Hackathon is back with new material and longer
  sessions. We will also be running a new workshop on securing your
  network with Secure Shell.
  After registering, you will be given information where to send
  money orders to by Friday 27th January.
  Melbourne Uni staff can register with Themis but will need to wait
  until after the 10th of February before this has been activated.

  FREE PRESENTATIONS - Thursday 9th - Friday 10th February
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  We are very pleased this year to have Wietse Venema
  (author of Postfix and TCP Wrappers, co-author of SATAN)
  as our keynote speaker.
  Read about Wietse and his tools here http://www.porcupine.org/wietse/.
  He will be giving us two talks at SECURECon and will be available
  throughout both days to chat to.

  Neal Wise will be back a third time with Adam Pointon to talk on the
  security implications of VoIP. Some of our other technical talks will
  be on WiFi traffic injection and honeypots, Apache Mod Security and
  hardening Windows Server 2003.

  There will also be case studies on Identity Driven Networking (IDN)
  and Digital Rights Management (DRM) including a panel discussion.

  Visit http://securecon.unimelb.edu.au/programme for more details.

  CONFERENCE DINNER AND RECEPTION
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  This year for the first time SECURECon will include a casual
  conference dinner on the Thursday night.
  Everyone will order whatever they like and pay themselves.
  Mark's Place has pizzas, pastas and other main meals
  ranging from $6.80-$18.50. Tick the box in registration
  if you want to come so we can book seats.

  Last year's free reception on Friday evening was very popular with
some
  great give-away prizes, finger food and alcoholic beverages.
  NOTE: You must be over 18 to be served at the bar so please do not
  be offended if you are asked to produce identification.

  ABOUT SECURECON
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  SECURECon aims to provide an annual forum for high quality
  presentations and workshops on emerging issues and technologies
  in IT Security with some focus on addressing issues relevant
  to the Education sector.
  Aimed at IT professionals across all industries SECURECon provides
  an opportunity for IT Professionals to network and exchange ideas
  and information.

  SECURECon is run by University of Melbourne IT Staff and students.

  Email enquiries_at_securecon.unimelb.edu.au if you have questions

  Visit http://securecon.unimelb.edu.au for more details

  SECURECon has been sponsored by:
  McAfee, Altiris, The University of Melbourne, Cisco Systems,
  Dimension Data and Melbourne University Bookshop.

  SECURECon is endorsed by the Information Systems Security
  Association (ISSA) http://www.issa.org.au