Hackers to brainstorm in Kochi

KOCHI: The city will witness a get-together of a rare genre this week. Cyber mystics from across the globe will fly down to the Queen of Arabian Sea for two days and will deliberate on the new trends in the international hacking scenario.  Cocon 2011, a global platform where hackers come together to discuss and deliberate new developments will begin in the city on October 7.  Over 20 cyber security experts from across the globe, including Michael Kemp from the UK, Celil Unuver from Turkey and Fyodor Yarochkin from Taiwan will speak at the 25 sessions, focusing on various aspects of cyber security, including mobile technology, e-commerce and banking and new challenges in cyber banking.“The conference will be a platform for thorough discussions on various cyber security aspects, including vulnerabilities of I-Phone and mobile payment gateways. Banking issues and new developments in cyber terrorism will have a special focus at the conference,” said cyber  event organiser Manu Zacharia.With an expected participation of about 400 delegates from the field of cyber security, Cocon will have officials from various government agencies also. The officials from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), cyber security experts with the Armed Forces - Army, Navy and Indian Airforce - and officials from the National Investigation Agency (NIA), CBI and Intelligence Bureau will attend the two-day event at IMA House, Kaloor.  “We have more than 20 world-renowned security experts and hackers who will speak about banking and cyber security. There are people from Corporates and major IT groups like Infosys, IBM India Software Labs, Asian School of Cyber Laws and various hacker and security groups like Null will share their experiences at the conference. We are still finalising the sponsors and speakers of the conference, which will have 25 sessions in two tracks, including releasing of seven new security tools, 14 pre-conference workshops and release of a security certification,” he said.Topics to be discussed include Wi-Fi Malware for Fun and Profit, reversible watermarking, pentesting iPhone applications, network security, risks in emerging mobile payment industry in India, security threats and  privacy risks of cloud computing.  The two-day conference is being organised by the Information Security Research Association (ISRA) along with the Matriux Security Community as part of the International Information Security day.More details about the conference is available with http://www.informationsecurityday.com/c0c0n/