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Positive Hack Days

Positive Hack Days (PHDays) is an annual international cybersecurity forum. It has been held by Positive Technologies since 2011. PHDays brings together IT and infosec experts, government officials, business representatives, students, and schoolchildren. The forum hosts talks and workshops on the most interesting information security topics, The Standoff cyberexercises, practical competitions in which participants analyze the security of industrial control systems, banking and mobile services, and web apps.

PHDays scope and agenda can be compared to those of Black Hat, DEF CON, and Source. The forum addresses the security of government and individuals in today's cyberworld, zero-day attacks and digital investigations, cyberwarfare, and cryptography.

The forum takes place in Moscow in May. An attendance fee is required. Free tickets are available for winners of special white hacking contests and for students who participate in the Positive Education program. Presentations are given in Russian and English.

The first forum was held on May 19, 2011, at a popular club in Moscow.

Talks and workshops covered such topics as government control of information security in Russia, remote banking system safety, secure connection in VoIP, protection of data in the cloud, and security of virtualization systems. The key guest speaker of the event was Dmitry Sklyarov.

During the forum, a capture the flag (CTF) competition was held among information security specialists from different countries. The US team PPP was the winner. There were other hacking contests, and during one of them a participant detected a zero-day vulnerability in Safari for Windows.

Among other speakers were experts from Kaspersky Lab, Russian Agricultural Bank, VimpelCom, Rostelecom, Cisco Systems, Leta IT-Company, Positive Technologies, and PwC. About 500 people attended the one-day event.

The second forum was conducted on May 30 and 31, 2012 at Digital October's center of new technologies. Along with six parallel streams of presentations and workshops, a CTF competition and several security-related contests were held again. Topics were divided into two areas: technical (exploiting radio noise, password protection, telecom security, usage of sqlmap) and business (internet banking security, data leakage in government, seeking specialists in information security).

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