The Dark Visitor

My Xcon 2006 pass

Jumper sent me an e-mail about the upcoming Xcon 2008 Conference that will take place in Beijing from 18-19 October:

If you have any questions, comments, please shoot against Casper
Though I am happy to forward it.

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Sowhat <smaillist (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
> Got couple of emails with comments (language mistakes) and questions,
> Thanks guys!
>
> Actually XCon is held by XFOCUS guys (Casper and others), they wrote
> it up and I was just helping to post the CFP.
>
> If you have any questions regarding the schedule, the conferences,
> the hotel, etc.
>
> Welcome to XCon! Welcome to China!
>
> Best
> Sowhat
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Sowhat <smaillist (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
>> XCon 2008 Call for Paper
>>
>> Nov. 18th ? 19th, 2008, Beijing, PRC (http://xcon.xfocus.net)
>>
>> XCon is wholeheartedly expecting papers from those who are passionate
>> about information security technique and their participation and sharing of
>> the conference.
>>
>> Attenders
>> Anyone who loves information security, including information security
>> experts and fans, network administrators, network security consultants, CIO,
>> hacker technique fans, etc.

More details on the conference here at Security Focus.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Xcon,  I’ll give you a little background.  The yearly host of the Xcon conference series is a group  going by the name Xfocus.  One of their 2007 conference attendees, XYZreg (Zhang Yi), a regular member of their security group,  claimed to have broken Kaspersky Anti-Virus Technology.  When I went to the conference in 2006, two of the major sponsors were Microsoft and NSfocus. NSfocus was one of the very first hacker sites in China, originally called the Green Army.  The organizaton has a very confusing history.

If anyone is planning on attending the conference, please drop me a line.