The attendees of the SANE 2006 conference will probably all be White Hats, or simply 'the good guys'. As at previous SANE conferences, the Black Hats Session will give the Black Hats viewpoint, i.e. that of the intruders (people who are trying to break into your computers).

Somebody once said: "the amount of clue on the Internet is a fixed constant". Indeed, the percentage of people on the Internet that are really hacking is decreasing. The problem is, however, that there are a lot of full-disclosure mailing lists that are read by people with too much spare time. Using standard exploit scripts and detailed descriptions they can easily attack thousands of systems with only minimal effort.

Contrary to earlier Black Hats Sessions, this time the topics will be limited so they can be explored in more detail. The topics for BHS V are:

• Footprinting, gathering information (maybe even from YOUR systems)
• Wireless technology (WiFi, WiMAX, Bluetooth, RFID, etc)
• Covert channels, hacking your network from the inside
• Stories from the trenches, a security consultants' experience with real companies, networks and systems

This Black Hats Session will highlight the problems that exist in Unix and Windows operating systems, application software and how administrators set up and work with those. Thus our intended audience will be these system and network administrators.

The Black Hats Session tries to give the audience an insight in how new technologies can be used and abused. Not by giving recipes for breaking in but by showing the technology and using the 'hacker mindset'.

Attendees are expected to have basic knowledge of UNIX and IP networks.