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Its getting to that time of year when thousands of security professionals and hackers congregate in Las Vegas for the Blackhat and Defcon conferences. My company is generously sending me and a few colleagues to Sin City to attend :-)

The Blackhat line up is pretty strong, and this year features a lot of web application security talks (as summarised here by Jeremiah Grossman). You might spot me there on the speaking list for the Oedipus talk, but I'm not actually planning on speaking this year.

As for EuSecWest earlier this year, I am going to blog a bit of detail about the talks that I make it to - its probably fair to say that these are going to lean heavilly towards the web application security side. I am also going to be attending Defcon, and am looking forward to catching up with a lot of people who don't really ever go to something quite as commercial as Blackhat.

So, if you're in Vegas for Blackhat or Defcon, and interested in catching up, drop me an email. I will probably be at the Shadow Bar at Caesar's on Wednesday night meeting other members of the webappsec mailing list, and otherwise will be around from the 1st to the 7th of August.

I received my very first email recently asking what happened to the Oedipus Web Scanner (800m800m gets heaps I hear). For those who did not know, Oedipus is now a dead project. For reasons we are not going to go into, the site has been taken down and will not be reappearing...

So, as 800m800m so aptly answered on the Oedipus site, he has moved on to other things, will not be speaking at Blackhat, and cannot give you a login to some s3kr3t 37337 CVS/SVN server since there isn't one.

This isn't to say this is the last you'll hear from 800m800m though, I'm sure he'll come out with something cool in future now he has the coding bug...