The world-class cybersecurity international conference, “CODE BLUE 2024" announced full program including sponsor talks. Pre-registration is open until November 7!

The CODE BLUE Executive Committee has announced all the program contents for CODE BLUE 2024 (Training: November 9-13, Conference: November 14-15 in Takadanobaba, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo). We are also pleased to announce the renewal of the CODE BLUE website and official logo.

CODE BLUE 2024

CODE BLUE 2024 will be held from November 9 to 13 with four training sessions, and from November 14 to 15 as a conference with a variety of lectures, contests and workshops, and exhibits by sponsor companies. A networking party will also be held on November 15.

To attend the training, you will need to apply for a "Training Ticket"; to attend the conference, you will need to apply for a "Conference Ticket" or "Visitor Ticket" (“Conference Tickets” will be provided to all training attendees. Please refer to the outline below for ticket details). In addition, contests and workshops are free of charge to all conference participants, regardless of whether they have a “Conference Ticket” or “Visitor Ticket”. Conference ticket holders will be able to enjoy advance access to archived videos of talks. (these videos will be available on the Eventory app in a few days after the conference).

The conference venue is divided into Tracks 1-3, with Track1 featuring the main track talks, Track2 featuring "U25" speakers under 25 years old and "Open Talks". Track3 will feature "Bluebox," which will introduce open source tools and projects.

This will be a valuable opportunity to gather world-class experts in Japan to exchange information and interact with each other. Tickets will be sold out as soon as the maximum number of tickets are sold, so please register as soon as possible.

Scene of CODE BLUE 2023

＜Program List＞

■Training（November 9~13）

・OffSec PEN-200 Live Training

・OffSec WEB-300 Live Training

・OffSec EXP-401 Live Training

・Windows Forensics Masterclass with Malware Analysis Essentials

*The time schedule for the training will differ depending on each program.

*Please visit the official website for more details.

https://codeblue.jp/en/program/trainings/

■Conference（November 14~15）

■CODE BLUE 2024 Track 1 Timetable (Main Track)

●Day 1 (November 14)

Start time  Lecture titles (Speaker *Honorific titles omitted)

9:00   Keynote: AI for formal verification; formal verification for AI (Video streaming)

　　　（David A. Dalrymple）

10:00 Piloting Edge Copilot

　　　（Jun Kokatsu）

10:50 Proxying to Kernel: Streaming vulnerabilities from Windows Kernel

　　　（Angelboy Yang）

12:50 Defeating PlayStation 5 network encryption

　　　（Aapo Oksman）

13:40 Attention Is All You Need for Semantics Detection: A Novel Transformer on Neural-Symbolic Approach

　　　（Mars Cheng/ Yi-An Lin/ Sheng-Hao Ma）

14:50 SBOM and Security Transparency - How it all fits together

　　　（Allan Friedman）

15:40 Abusing legacy railroad signaling systems

　　　（David Melendez）

16:30 Hacking Google - Lessons learned running and growing an internal red team

　　　（Stefan Friedli）

17:20 An Inside Look at Pixel Security

　　　（Nikolay Elenkov/ Vincent Chen）

●Day 2 (November 15)

Start time  Lecture titles (Speaker *Honorific titles omitted)

9:00   Did Subdomain Abuse by BlackTech “Evolve”?

　　　（Tsuyoshi Taniguchi/ Kotaro Ohsugi）

9:50   PkgFuzz Project: Yet Another Continuous Fuzzing for Open Source Software

　　　（Yuhei Kawakoya/ Eitaro Shioji/ Yuto Otsuki）

10:40 APTs in APAC aerospace: when Dragons and Chollimas Reach for the Stars

　　　（Vic Huang/ Ming Xuan Yang）

11:30 China’s Evolving Playbook: The Combination of Hack-and-Leak and Influence Operations

　　　（Li-an Huang/ Chih-yun Huang）

13:20 Behind Enemy Lines: Engaging and Disrupting Ransomware Web Panels

　　　（Vangelis Stykas）

14:10 V for Vendetta: Dissecting a Global Phishing Platform After Being Phished

　　　（Mangatas Tondang）

15:10 NGate: Novel Android malware for unauthorized ATM withdrawals via NFC relay

　　　（Lukas Stefanko/ Jakub Osmani）

16:00 From Snowflake to Snowstorm: Navigating Breaches and Detections

　　　（Roei Sherman）

16:50 [Closing] Panel Discussion: International Approaches to Cybersecurity Talent Development and Strategic Initiatives

　　　（Ioannis Agrafiotis/ Lucy Hindmarsh/ Jessica Gulick/ Asuka Nakajima）

■CODE BLUE 2024 Track 2 Timetable (U25, OpenTalks)

●Day 1 (November 14)

10:00 AI Red Team: An initiative for security risks in generative AI services

　　　（PwC Consulting LLC　Naohide Waguri／Barry O'callaghan）

10:55 Generation of Cyber Threat Intelligence using AI Agent

　　　（NEC Corporation　Riku Katsuse）

13:15 Not Just Configuration Errors: A Comprehensive Look at Threats to Object Storage Services like S3

　　　（Flatt Security Inc.　Eiji Mori／Norihide Saito）

13:55 Next-generation EASM: AI Copilot for External Attack Path Simulation

　　　（CyCraft Japan Corporation　Benson Wu）

14:35 Formulation of AI Utilization Rules and Associated Risks

　　　（NTT DATA INTELLILINK Corporation　Kouji Hirai）

15:15 Vulnerability Management Against Cyber Attacks and Ransomware Threats: Lessons Learned from Incident Response on the Frontlines

　　　（FutureVuls／dit Co., Ltd.　Nobuhito Aoshima）

16:00 Panasonic IoT Threat Intelligence "ASTIRA" and Case Study: Vehicle Software Vulnerability Analysis Solution VERZEUSE™

　　　（Panasonic Holdings Corporation　Yosuke Tshuchiya／Takamitsu Sasaki／Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.　Shoichiro Sekiya）

●Day 2 (November 15)

Start time Title of Speech (Speaker *Honorific titles omitted)

10:00 PartＩ: Security from the Perspective of the Cyber Domain

        （Hitachi Systems, Ltd. 　Akira Orita）

          Part Ⅱ: China's omni-directional information influence operations 

         (Bonji Ohara, Senior Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation)　　　

10:55 Importance of Incident Management

　　　（MS&AD InterRisk Research & Consulting, Inc.　Takashi Aoyama）

11:35 Large-scale Language Models for Automated ASM Operations

　　　（Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc.　Isao Takaesu）

13:00 1-Click-Fuzz: Systematically Fuzzing the Windows Kernel Driver with Symbolic Execution.

　　　（Sangjun Park/ Yunjin Park/ Jongseong Kim）

13:50 WebAssembly Is All You Need: Exploiting Chrome and the V8 Sandbox 10+ times with WASM

　　　（Seunghyun Lee）

14:40 Decade of OSINT in Japan: Expanding Knowledge and Deepening in Practice

　　　（SCSK Security Corporation　Hiroshi Endo／Yuho Kameda）

15:20 NRI Secure's Space Security Initiatives

　　　（NRI SecureTechnologies, Ltd.　Ken Jingu）

16:00 Discussing the Frontline Countermeasures Against Evolving Cyberattacks with Specialists from GMO Ierae

　　　（GMO Cybersecurity by Ierae, Inc.　Makoto Makita／Ruslan Sayfiev／Shinji Abe／Yuki Koike／Ryo Ichikawa／Shouji Baba／Satoshi Mimura／Daiki Fukumori／Hikohiro Lin／Fumikazu Okuno／Hanbang Wang (Tentative)）

■CODE BLUE 2024 Track 3 Timetable (Bluebox)

●Day 1 (November 14)

10:00 Automatically Detect and Support Against Anti-Debug with IDA/Ghidra to Streamline Debugging Process

　　　（Takahiro Takeda）

11:00 BullyRAG: A Multi-Perspective RAG Robustness Evaluation Framework

　　　（Sian-Yao Eric Huang/ Cheng-Lin Yang/ Yen-Shan Chen）

13:00 EchidnaTermApp: Penetration Test Assist & Learning Tool

　　　（Yu Terada）

14:00 Event Tracing for Windows Internals

　　　（Shusei Tomonaga）

15:00 Modern SOC: Less Than One and More Than Infinity

　　　（Alexander Rodchenko/ Farid Dzhugunusov）

16:00 NTLMv1 reversion to NTLM with hashcat and the NTLMv1-multi tool

　　　（Dustin Heywood）

*Please note that the titles of the talks and speakers' names are subject to change.

*For details of the timetable, please visit the official website below. Please note that the program is subject to change.

https://codeblue.jp/en/program/time-table/

■Contests/Workshops

・NEC Security Skills Challenge (CTF)

・SecuriTTX for Everyone (Tabletop Excercise)!

・Introduction to incident response caused by cloud configuration

・Hacking Active Directory

・Cyber Range Exercise

・Offensive security operations: Building adversary emulation engagements

・Android Security - Hacker's Guide

・Car Hacking Village

・Bio Hacking Village

・Kunoichi Cyber Game

・Cyber TAMAGO :Share cybersecurity tools and ideas.

*The time schedule for the contests/workshops will differ depending on each program.

*Please visit the official website for more details.

https://codeblue.jp/en/program/contests-workshops/

<Notice of Official Website Renewal>

CODE BLUE has renewed its website and official logo. The website has been redesigned and incorporates many photos to give a realistic feel of the venue. The timetable has also been upgraded to improve convenience by allowing the schedule to be displayed by venue and genre. We invite you to visit our new website.

Please note that the URL of the website has changed with this renewal ( https://codeblue.jp/ ). Please update your bookmarks and favorites if you have saved them.

■Outline of CODE BLUE 2024

Date: November 9th (Saturday) to November 15th (Friday), 2024

Organizer: CODE BLUE Executive Committee

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

Language: Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available* 　　　　             　         (*excluding some talks)

Format: In-person

【Training】

Date: November 9th (Saturday) to November 13th(Wednesday), 2024  

  (Each course has a minimum number of participants. The number of days varies depending on the course.)

Venue: Waim Rental Room Takadanobaba (TD Building 3F)

*Please refer to the Training page of the official website for the participation fee and details of each course.

(Japanese) https://codeblue.jp/program/trainings/

(English)  https://codeblue.jp/en/program/trainings/

【Conference】 

Date: November 14th (Thursday) to November 15th (Friday), 2024

Venue: Bellesalle Takadanobaba

　    　(Sumitomo Fudosan Shinjuku Garden Tower B2/1F)

Price: 

 1.Conference Ticket

(Admission to all areas, including networking parties)

　  <Regular Price> 98,000 yen (tax incl.): Jun 1st - Nov 7th

　  <On Site> 128,000 yen (tax incl.): Nov 14th - Nov 15th

2. Visitor Ticket

(Limited admission to areas other than the main track, no admission to networking parties)

　  <Regular Price> 27,000 yen (tax incl.): Jun 1st - Nov 7th

　  <On Site> 32,000 yen (tax incl.): Nov 14th - Nov 15th

Registration:

Please register from the Registration page on the official website.

(Japanese) https://codeblue.jp/registration/

(English) https://codeblue.jp/en/registration/

(For Press) https://codeblue.jp/press-registration/

■About CODE BLUE

CODE BLUE is an international cyber security conference that brings together top-class experts from Japan and abroad. This year marks the 12th CODE BLUE conference, which provides cutting-edge lectures by cyber security experts and opportunities for information exchange and interaction across national and language borders. 

By bringing together the world's top experts in a variety of fields, the conference aims to revitalize and strengthen cooperation in security in Asia, including Japan, and to discover talented young researchers from Japan and other Asian countries and encourage them to enter the international arena.

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■List of sponsors: https://codeblue.jp/en/sponsors/