It turns out yesterday one of the planned speakers at HOPE Number 6 was arrested on Saturday and is being charged by the FBI.

Security Fix obtained a copy of the complaint against “Steven Rambam” the private investigator arrested Saturday at the Hope Number Six hacker conference in New York City. The government document says Rambam is an alias, and that his real name is Steven Rombom, so that is how he’ll be referred to here henceforth.

The complaint, available here as a PDF, charges Rombom with obstruction of justice and with witness tampering, alleging that in April 2006 Rombom impersonated a federal investigator at the request of a client who had hired him to locate a government informant who was central to the client’s money-laundering indictment in 2003.

Seems like it’s not unjust though, he is getting what he deserves. He was taking things a little bit too far.

The government claims that in April Rombom located and visited the California home of the informant’s in-laws, and introduced himself as an FBI agent, flashing what the informant’s mother-in-law described as “a laminated card with an official government gold seal or badge.”

The complaint says “ROMBOM told [the mother-in-law] that he was investigating the [informant], and that her son-in-law was a very bad and dangerous person, and that there were many things about the [informant] that the in-laws probably didn’t know,” such as that the informant had been in jail many times. Rombom also told the mother-in-law that her daughter was in danger because of the informant and that he was afraid for the safety of their daughter, the government says.

1 less speaker for HOPE next time then I guess?

Source: Security Fix

Following Darknet post regarding SyScan’06, I decided to make a little resume of the most important security events all around the world.

Unfortunately we won’t be able to go, so all the pictures are welcome. (-:

If there’s any missing do let us know.

Recon 2006 – WWW – 16 June to 18 June 2006 – Plaza Hotel Centre-Ville, Montreal, Canada

InfoSecurity Canada 2006 – WWW – 20 June to 21 June 2006 – Metro Toronto Convention Center, Toronto, Canada

HOPE Number Six – WWW – 21 July to 23 July 2006 – Hotel Pennsylvania, New York, USA

Secure Malaysia 2006 – WWW – 24 July to 26 July 2006 – Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Third Conference on e-Mail and Anti-Spam – WWW – 27 July to 28 July 2006 – Mountain View, California, USA

Defcon 14 – WWW – 4 August to 6 August 2006 – Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, USA

RuxCon 2006 – WWW – 30 September to 1 October 2006 – University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Mobile Security – WWW – 3 October to 5 October 2006 – Crowne Plaza, St James, London, UK

Infosecurity New York 2006 – WWW – 23 October to 25 October 2006 – Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, USA

You can also visit SecurityPark for a complete list of Information Security events.