We will also be connected to a g722 bridge for more experimentation with the merits of wide band audio.

This should give you all the info needed :

http://www.voipusersconference.org

and jump on IRC.freenode.net on #voip-users-conference

to listen or talk, just call

sip:7463#22622#1@proxy.ideasip.com

See you there.

/r

TWITTER:

'voipusers' , 'VUClmailinglist'

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Call for Papers:

16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2009

Nov 9 - 13, 2009: Hyatt Regency Chicago, IL, USA

http://sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2009

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Important Dates:

* Paper Submission due: Monday, April 20th, 2009

* Acceptance notification: Sunday, July 12th, 2009

* Final papers due: Monday, August 17th, 2009

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The annual ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference is a leading international forum for information security researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences.  The conference seeks submissions from academia, government, and industry presenting novel research on all practical and theoretical aspects of computer and communications security, as well as case studies and implementation experiences. Papers should have relevance to the construction, evaluation, application, or operation of secure systems. Theoretical papers must make a convincing argument for the practical significance of the results. All topic areas related to computer and communications security are of interest and in scope.

Accepted papers will be published by ACM Press in the conference proceedings. Outstanding papers will be invited for possible publication in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.

Paper Submission Process:

Submissions must be made by the deadline of April 20, 2009, through the website:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccs2009. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference or workshop. Simultaneous submission of the same work is not allowed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference.

Paper Format:

Submissions must be at most ten pages in double-column ACM format

(note: pages must be numbered), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices and at most 12 pages overall. All submissions must be anonymized (an author's name should only occur in references to that author's related work, which should be referenced in the third person and not overtly distinguishable from the referenced work of others). Only PDF or Postscript files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Tutorial Submissions:

Proposals for long (3-hour) and short (1.5-hour) tutorials on research topics of current and emerging interest should be submitted electronically to the tutorials chair by May 25, 2009. The guidelines for tutorial proposal can be found on the website.

Conference Website

Additional information and this call for papers can be found at:

http://sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2009

General Chair:

Ehab Al-Shaer (DePaul University, USA)

Program Chairs:

Somesh Jha (University of Wisconsin, USA) Angelos D. Keromytis (Columbia U & Symantec Research Labs Europe)

Tutorial Chair:

Ninghui Li (Purdue University, USA)

Workshops Chair:

Ting Yu (Purdue University, USA)

Treasurer:

Sencun Zhu (Penn State University, USA)

Publication Chair:

Hao Chen (UC Davis, USA)

Web Chair:

Peng Liu (Penn State University, USA)

Student Travel Grant Chair:

Angelos Stavrou (George Mason U, USA)

Publicity Chairs:

Christopher Kruegel (UC Santa Barbara, USA) Elena Ferrari (University of Insubria, Italy)

Posters & Demos Co-Chairs:

Nikita Borisov (University of Illinois, USA) Xinming Ou (Kansas State U, USA)

Patron Co-Chairs:

Peng Ning (North Carolina State U., USA) Nasir Memon (Polytechnic Inst. of NYU, USA) Gail-Joon Ahn (Arizona State Univ., USA)

Local Arrangements Committee:

Yan Chen (Northeastern University, USA)

V.N. Venkatakrishnan, (U. of Illinois, USA) Tricha Anjali (Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA) Jean-Philippe Labruyere (DePaul U., USA)

Regional Arrangement Committee:

XiaoFeng Wang (Indiana Univ., USA)

Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Purdue Univ., USA) Alex Liu (Michgan State Univ., USA) Nikita Borisov (University of Illinois, USA)

Technical Program Committee:

Martin Abadi (UC Santa Cruz & Microsoft, USA) Kostas Anagnostakis (I2R/A-STAR, Singapore) Kosta Beznosov (U British Columbia, Canada) Dan Boneh (Stanford University, USA) Steve Borbash (Department of Defense, USA) Jean Camp (Indiana University, USA) Iliano Cervesato (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA) Mihai Christodorescu (IBM Research, USA) Debra Cook (IDA-CCS, USA) Lorrie Cranor (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA) Weidong Cui (Microsoft Research, USA) Marc Dacier (Symantec, France) George Danezis (Microsoft Research, UK) Claudia Diaz (KU Leuven, Belgium) Sven Dietrich (Stevens Inst. of Tech., USA) Wenliang Du (Syracuse University, USA) Matt Edman (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA) Simone Fischer-Huebner (Karlstads U, Sweden) Cédric Fournet (Microsoft Research, UK) Jon Giffin (Georgia Institute of Tech., USA) Virgil Gligor (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA) Eu-Jin Goh (Stanford University, USA) Rachel Greenstadt (Drexel University) Minaxi Gupta (Indiana University, USA) Peter Guttman (U of Auckland, New Zealand) Alex Halderman (Princeton University, USA) Sotiris Ioannidis (ICS/FORTH, Greece) Trent Jaeger (Penn State University, USA) Farnam Jahanian (University of Michigan, USA) Rob Johnson (Stony Brook University, USA) Apu Kapadia (MIT Lincoln Labs, USA) Yoshi Kohno (University of Washington, USA) Shriram Krishnamurti (Brown University, USA) Ben Laurie (Google UK) Wenke Lee (Georgia Tech, USA) Brian Levine (U of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) Ninghui Li (Purdue University, USA) Patrick McDaniel (Penn State University, USA) Cathy Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Dave Molnar (U of California, Berkeley, USA) Fabian Monrose (Univ. of North Carolina, USA) James Muir (Saint Mary's University, Canada) Peng Ning (North Carolina State Univ., USA) Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Purdue University, USA) Paul Van Oorschot (Carleton University, Canada) Lasse Overlier (FFI, Norway) Stefano Paraboschi (University of Bergamo, Italy) Andrei Sabelfeld (Chalmers U of Tech., Sweden) Kazue Sako (NEC, Japan) Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan, Italy) Angela Sasse (University College London, UK) R. Sekar (Stony Brook University, USA) Hovav Shacham (UC San Diego, USA) Umesh Shankar (Google, USA) Shiuhpyng Shieh (National Chiao Tung U, Taiwan) Anoop Singhal (NIST, USA) Radu Sion (Stony Brook University, USA) Jon Solworth (University of Chicago USA) Jessica Staddon (Palo Alto Research Center, USA) Angelos Stavrou (George Mason Univ., USA) Julie Thorpe (Carleton University, Canada) Patrick Traynor (Georgia Tech, USA) V.N. Venkatakrishnan (U. Illinois Chicago, USA) Giovanni Vigna (UC Santa Barbara, USA) Dan Wallach (Rice University, USA) Susanne Wetzel (Stevens Inst. of Tech., USA)

Day 1

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4654588/HITBSecConf2008_-_Malaysia_Videos___Day_1

Keynote Address 1:
The Art of Click-Jacking - Jeremiah Grossman Keynote Address 2: Cyberwar is Bullshit - Marcus Ranum

Presentations:

• Delivering Identity Management 2.0 by Leveraging OPSS
• Bluepilling the Xen Hypervisor
• Pass the Hash Toolkit for Windows
• Internet Explorer 8 - Trustworthy Engineering and Browsing
• Full Process Reconsitution from Memory
• Hacking Internet Kiosks
• Analysis and Visualization of Common Packers
• A Fox in the Hen House - UPnP IGD
• MoocherHunting
• Browser Exploits: A New Model for Browser Security
• Time for a Free Hardware Foundation?
• Mac OS Xploitation
• Hacking a Bird in The Sky 2.0
• How the Leopard Hides His Spots - OS X Anti-Forensics Techniques

Day 2

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4654974/HITBSecConf2008_-_Malaysia_Videos___Day_2

Keynote Address 3:
Dissolving an Industry as a Hobby - THE PIRATE BAY

Presentations:

• Pushing the Camel Through the Eye of a Needle
• An Effective Methodology to Enable Security Evaluation at RTL Level
• Remote Code Execution Through Intel CPU Bugs
• Next Generation Reverse Shell
• Build Your Own Password Cracker with a Disassembler and VM Magic
• Decompilers and Beyond
• Cracking into Embedded Devices and Beyond!
• Client-side Security
• Top 10 Web 2.0 Attacks

On a related note, the registration for HITBSecConf2009 - Dubai (20th - 23rd April) is now open!

http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2009dubai/

The Call for Papers (CFP) for HITBSecConf2009 - Malaysia (October 5th -8th) will open in March 2009.

A belated Happy New Year from all of us at Hack in The Box and may all your exploits result in root shell!  :)

The HITB Team.

Just wanted to let you know that the Call for Papers for AMOOCON ends at the 25th of January 2009 ( http://www.amoocon.org/ ).

See the web site for a list of speakers.

AmooCon is the open-source telephony conference formerly known as Asterisk-Tag.org ( http://www.asterisk-tag.org/ ).

4+5 May 2009.

cu

Philipp Kempgen

Monday December 15th
6:00 pm

800 Hunt Club Rd. (at Uplands)
http://www.royaloakpubs.com/huntclub.html

Map Here

Jose Landivar, co-founder of PaloSanto Solutions[2], creators of Elastix, will be running a "getting started" workshop on Elastix, followed by a talk discussing how it differs from other Asterisk-based distributions, and a road map of the project's future.

Elastix[3] is an open source asterisk-based linux telephony appliance that integrates tools such as OpenFire IM Server, SugarCRM, mail services, and billing software into a single, easy-to-use interface. It also adds its own set of utilities and allows for the creation of third party modules.

When:
Wednesday November 26th, 2008
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: WORKSHOP - Getting Started with Elastix (reg. req.)
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm: TALK - Integrated Communications with Elastix

Where:
Committee Room 3
North York Civic Centre (in Mel Lastman Square)
5100 Yonge St.,
North York, ON
Map link: http://xrl.us/hqbw

Registration is requested for the workshop, sign up at: http://taug.ca/node/174 No registration is required for the talk: http://taug.ca/node/175

Check back at http://taug.ca for event updates.

Cheers,
Simon P. Ditner
TAUG.ca Talk Coordinator

[1] http://www.sangoma.com
[2] http://www.palosanto.com
[3] http://www.elastix.org

This week's VoIP Users Conference will be tie the Talkshoe PSTN/SIP ULAW conference bridge to the ZipDX.com G.722-capable bridge. It may be a little crazy, but I'm looking forward to getting some explanations from David Frankel about the effects of wide band (or as Polycom calls it, "HD Voice") on conferencing.

David can probably answer any technical questions you may have about WB audio and maybe share some of the tweaks they do to keep their service working efficiently. I know for example that they have done a lot of experimentation with jitter buffers and such to get the lag down as low as possible.

As usual, the conference is open to all, your questions and shared experiences are welcome. Recordings made from both bridges will be made available and if possible, some samples of technical data of the wideband end might be viewable. That would come from the ZipDX end, not mine. I've invited Dave Nelsen, CEO of Talkshoe who has worked in the telcom industry for years and if Dave has any time to help us get info from their Talkshoe bridge, that would be interesting too.

I think this might be a fun, if slightly chaotic session so be there live if you can. If you want to try to hook up your asterisk server as a client on ZipDX, write me or mgraves and we'll get that info to you.

See you Friday!

9AM PST, 10 MST, 11 CST, 12 EST, 17:00 UTC 5PM UK/Portugal, 18h Fr/Sp/It 19h Tel Aviv

Call info: http://bit.ly/voip
IRC: irc.freenode.net #voip-users-conference
PSTN: (724) 444-7444 DTMF 22622# 1#
http://food4wine.ning.com forums, blogs, conference agenda

As a developer and consultant who spends considerable time on projects
involving the fusion of Asterisk and products derived from the SER
ecosystem (OpenSER, Kamailio, OpenSIPS, the new SIP-Router), I have
found that there is a great volume of interest in this topic on the
mailing lists associated with all communities involved, but a
comparative lack of focus that results in duplicated effort and lack of
specialised response.

This is mainly due, I think, to the fact that detailed Asterisk
experience - while common - is not a prerequisite for working with the
SER products, while for Asterisk people SER can often be a next step in
scalability and VoIP service delivery platform enhancement that they are
just getting into. And so on. There's pollution in the respective
discursive spaces; a lot of Asterisk people posting to the SER lists
ask a lot of Asterisk-specific questions in addition to any they may
have about SER which can be construed as potentially off-topic by some
members, and the opposite is true on the Asterisk lists when detailed,
involved discussion about SER occurs.

We need to capture that discussion that exists at the overlap and is
specifically concerned with making these two systems work together,
requiring somewhat detailed and esoteric understanding of both and a
community of user support and knowledge that focuses on both of these
conceptual and product universes.

Toward that end, I am hosting a new mailing list with this succinct
purpose, if slightly unwieldy name, and encourage all interested to
join. It is called 'SER-Asterisk-Interwork' and can be accessed for
subscription here:

http://lists.evaristesys.com/mailman/listinfo/ser-asterisk-interwork

The archives are available here:

http://lists.evaristesys.com/pipermail/ser-asterisk-interwork/

You can post to the list at:

ser-asterisk-interwork@lists.evaristesys.com

It's the same GNU Mailman stuff you are already used to.

While it could be argued that this cross-product discussion is valuable
to retain in both communities, I think there is considerable benefit to
creating a specialised mailing list that focuses specifically on this
integration path and the unique interoperation and configuration issues
it creates. I think it would be good to get some of this discussion off
of the SER and Asterisk-specific mailing lists where it has somewhat
marginal relevance at times and refocus it. If you agree and are
interested in this topic, you are invited to join the list.

One last note: The SER/OpenSER community has been in a state of flux
recently, with OpenSER undergoing a name change to Kamailio and
subsequently seeing a fork. The incumbent Kamailio project is now
in the process of merging with the original SER project. The choice of
nomenclature for list is not meant to imply an endorsement of or
affinity for the IPTel SER project per se. It is just that right now it
serves the aim of terseness to use a common denominator, to refer to
this family of projects as the "SER ecosystem." Whether you are a SER,
OpenSER, Kamailio, or OpenSIPS user, you are part of that "SER
ecosystem." That is why the list is named what it is.

Thank you,

-- Alex

--
Alex Balashov
Evariste Systems
Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/
Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670
Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671
Mobile : (+1) (706) 338-8599

We would like to make ICNS 2009 a primary reference event.

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results.

Please note that extended versions of highly ranked papers will be invited for journals submission.

Full contributions are expected by the submission deadline.

=========== ICNS 2009 + 1st Workshop LMPCNAP | Call for Papers ===========

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

- ICNS 2009, The Fifth International Conference on Networking and Services April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICNS09.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICNS09.html

- The first International Workshop on Learning Methodologies and Platforms used in the Cisco Networking Academy Program (CNAP), LMPCNAP 2009 will be held during ICNS 2009 in April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/LMPCNAP.html

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) November 10, 2008 Authors notification December 5, 2008 Registration December 20, 2008 Camera ready December 25, 2008

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CS Press, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster Forum special submission with on progress and challenging ideas.

ICNS 2009 Area Tracks are the following (details in the CfP on site):

ENCOT: Emerging Network Communications and Technologies
COMAN: Network Control and Management
SERVI: Multi-technology service deployment and assurance
NGNUS: Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services
MPQSI: Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking
GRIDNS: Grid Networks and Services
EDNA: Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications
IPv6DFI: Deploying the Future Infrastructure
IPDy: Internet Packet Dynamics
GOBS: GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks

=================================

- ICNS General Chair

Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

- ICNS 2009 Industry Chairs

Kevin Y Ung, Boeing, USA
Leo Lehmann, OFCOM, Switzerland
Francisco Javier Sanchez, Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF), Spain

- ICNS 2009 Technical Program Committee Chair

Giancarlo Fortino, Universit` della Calabria, Italy Salvador Sales, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Feng Xia, Queensland University of Technology, Australia / Zhejiang University, China

- ICNS Advisory Chairs

Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Vicente Casares, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong - Kowloon, Hong Kong Manuel Sierra-Pirez, Universidad Politicnica de Madrid, Spain

- LMPCNAP 2009 General Chair

Rafael Tomas, Mediterranean Cisco Academy Training Center (CATC), Spain

- LMPCNAP 2009 Technical Program Commitee chair

Prof. Tomeu Serra, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

================================

We would like to make ICNS 2009 a primary reference event.

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results.

Please note that extended versions of highly ranked papers will be invited for journals submission.

Full contributions are expected by the submission deadline.

=========== ICNS 2009 + 1st Workshop LMPCNAP | Call for Papers ===========

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

- ICNS 2009, The Fifth International Conference on Networking and Services April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICNS09.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICNS09.html

- The first International Workshop on Learning Methodologies and Platforms used in the Cisco Networking Academy Program (CNAP), LMPCNAP 2009 will be held during ICNS 2009 in April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/LMPCNAP.html

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) November 10, 2008 Authors notification December 5, 2008 Registration December 20, 2008 Camera ready December 25, 2008

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CS Press, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster Forum special submission with on progress and challenging ideas.

ICNS 2009 Area Tracks are the following (details in the CfP on site):

ENCOT: Emerging Network Communications and Technologies
COMAN: Network Control and Management
SERVI: Multi-technology service deployment and assurance
NGNUS: Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services
MPQSI: Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking
GRIDNS: Grid Networks and Services
EDNA: Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications
IPv6DFI: Deploying the Future Infrastructure
IPDy: Internet Packet Dynamics
GOBS: GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks

=================================

- ICNS General Chair

Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

- ICNS 2009 Industry Chairs

Kevin Y Ung, Boeing, USA
Leo Lehmann, OFCOM, Switzerland
Francisco Javier Sanchez, Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF), Spain

- ICNS 2009 Technical Program Committee Chair

Giancarlo Fortino, Universit` della Calabria, Italy Salvador Sales, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Feng Xia, Queensland University of Technology, Australia / Zhejiang University, China

- ICNS Advisory Chairs

Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Vicente Casares, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong - Kowloon, Hong Kong Manuel Sierra-Pirez, Universidad Politicnica de Madrid, Spain

- LMPCNAP 2009 General Chair

Rafael Tomas, Mediterranean Cisco Academy Training Center (CATC), Spain

- LMPCNAP 2009 Technical Program Commitee chair

Prof. Tomeu Serra, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

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