page_title: Positive Hack Days
section_title: PHDays III: From Both Sides of the Barricade
hierarchical_section_title: Positive Hack Days / PHDays III: From Both Sides of the Barricade
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Прохождение лазерного поля
context_page_description: Positive Hack Days is a computer security conference held every year in Moscow. The first conference was held in 2011. The conference addresses such topics as zero-day attacks and digital investigations, cryptography and cyberwarfare, the security of a person and a state in the cyberworld. Attendance fee is required. Free tickets are available for winners of special hacking contests and for students who participated in the Positive Education program.
  PHDays is aimed at a wide range of audience, from hackers and technical experts to businessmen and politicians. Presentations are given in Russian and English.
context_section_description: The third conference was held on May 23 and 24 at the World Trade Center. Among main topics: ICS protection, web application and mobile application security, preventing attacks against banking systems, cooperation between government, researchers and information society.
  Marc "van Hauser" Heuse, the creator of THC-Hydra, Amap and SuSEFirewall and the founder of The Hacker Choice, became the leading speaker.
  Significant events include: a report from SCADA Strangelove  about the security of Siemens SIMATIC software, a workshop on hacking ATM, a workshop from The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers (experts in nondestructive lock opening), a model railroad controlled by real industrial systems, the Labyrinth's rooms with laser field and motion detectors.
  George Hotz (geohot) participated in the CTF contest as a member of PPP. He was the first to unlock iPhone, which allowed using it with other providers besides AT&T. George Hotz also won 2drunk2hack, a contest, where participants should hack web applications and have a strong drink when fail.
  Specialists from Kaspersky Lab, Cisco Systems, Nokia, RSA, IPONWEB, Qualys visited the conference. PHDays III saw about 2,500 attendees.
  A movie about preparation for the conference was released in 2013.
caption: A participant getting over the laser field of the Labyrinth
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