The world-class cybersecurity international conference, CODE BLUE 2023, announced all speakers

The CODE BLUE Executive Committee announced all the speakers for CODE BLUE 2023, Japan’s premier international cybersecurity conference being held from November 8th to 9th, 2023 in Akasaka, Tokyo.

CODE BLUE 2023

This year, the number of sessions has increased from last year in 2022,  with a total of 28 sessions. Speakers were selected from more than 300 outstanding applicants and the application ratio was 10 times.

CODE BLUE 2023 will be held as an in-person only event for the first time in several years, making it an extremely valuable opportunity that top-class cyber security experts from around the world will visit Japan. Please be sure to get your tickets early.

■Full list (by category, title omitted, in no particular order)

○Keynote

・If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable　-　Mikko Hypponen

・TBD　-　Sergiy Korsunsky

○Technical

・Bypassing macOS Security and Privacy Mechanisms: From Gatekeeper to System Integrity Protection　-　Koh Nakagawa

・Enhanced Vulnerability Hunting in WDM Drivers with Symbolic Execution and Taint Analysis　-　Che-Yu Lin

・Endpoint Security or End of Security? Exploiting Trend Micro Apex One　-　Shih-Fong Peng / Ling Wu

・A 3-Year Tale of Hacking a Pwn2Own Target: The Attacks, Vendor Evolution, and Lesson Learned.　-　Orange Tsai

・"filename" in Content-Disposition is a landmine - vulnerability caused by ambiguous requirements　-　Motoyasu Saburi

・Modems (and telecoms) are also not as secure - 6 0-days to 4 million modems within a week　-　Ta-Lun Yen

・Unlocking the Drive: Exploiting Tesla Model 3　-　Vincent Dehors / David Berard

・Open Sesame! The full story behind opening a smart lock　-　Thomas Bygodt

・Hi! My Name Is [What?]: Abusing DHCP To Spoof DNS Records　-　Ori David

○General

・The Renaissance of Cyber Physical Offensive Capabilities　-　Daniel Kapellmann Zafra

・International Panel Discussion on 'A Comprehensive Study of Active Cyber Defence'　-　Ikuo Takahashi / Nick Wobma / Talita Dias 

・Echoes of Ransomware: Uncovering a Cyber Blast Radius　-　Jeffrey Tully / Christian Dameff

○CyberCrime

・Money Making or Camouflaging? Dissecting APT41's Ransomware Activities　-　Che Chang / Charles Li

・The Dark Side of Cloud Computing: How Threat Actors Abuse Millions of Dollars of Cloud Compte　-　Daniel Davrayev / Yossi Weizman

○Law&Policy

・Winning from Within: Chinese InfoOp Targeting Overseas Diaspora　-　Chih-yun Huang / Che Chang

・Digital sovereignty - shaping regulatory responses to technological dominace　-　Przemyslaw Roguski

・Pennywise - Invisible privacy risk in the new AI era　-　Vic Huang / Joy Ho

○U25

・Deep-Kernel Treasure Hunt: Finding exploitable structures in the Linux kernel　-　Yudai Fujiwara

・Pwning Electron Application : Analysis and Defense of Vulnerabilities in Electron Applications　-　Inseo An

○Bluebox

・Power Automate C2: Stealth Living-Off-the-Cloud C2 Framework　-　Hiroki Hada / Tomoaki Tani / Rintaro Fujita

・Windows Event Log Internals: Understanding the Core Mechanisms for Enhanced Security　-　Shusei Tomonaga

・OSBT: OpenID Connect Scenario-Based Tester　-　Junki Yuasa

・stelftools: cross-architecture static library detector for IoT malware　-　Shu Akabane / Takeshi Okamoto

○Community

・Behind the Scenes: Building CTF from Scratch　-　Tomer Zait

・BSides Tokyo 2024　-　Soya Aoyama

・Building a Diverse and Inclusive Cybersecurity Workforce　-　Sushrut Mishra

*Please note that each title and translation are subject to change.

■CODE BLUE 2023 Overview

Date: November 8th (Wednesday) to November 9th (Thursday), 2023

Venue: Akasaka Intercity Conference (Akasaka Intercity AIR 4F)

Organizer: CODE BLUE Executive Committee

Operation: CODE BLUE Secretariat (BLUE Co., Ltd.)

Price: <Early Bird> 78,000 yen (tax incl.): Registration closed

　　  <Regular Price> 98,000 yen (tax incl.): Aug 1st - Nov 2nd

　　  <On Site> 128,000 yen (tax incl.): Nov 8th - Nov 9th

Registration: https://codeblue.jp/2023/registration/

Note: Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available* 

         (*excluding some lectures)

■About CODE BLUE 2023

CODE BLUE is an international cybersecurity conference where top class experts from Japan and the world gather. Celebrating its 11th year, the conference provides state-of-the-art lectures by cybersecurity experts and opportunities for information exchange and interaction that transcend national and language barriers.

By bringing together the world's top-level experts active in a variety of fields, we aim to revitalize and strengthen cooperation of cybersecurity in Asia and foster excellent young researchers in Japan and Asia.

Due to the spread of coronavirus infection, the conference was held online in 2020, as hybrid event in 2021 and 2022, but this year it will be held as an in-person event at Akasaka Intercity AIR this year*. We also hold a networking party to interact with many industry people. (*This year, we will hold the conference in-person, and will not be streaming online.)

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■List of sponsors:

https://codeblue.jp/2023/en/sponsors/

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