Malcon, a security show scheduled for December in Mumbai, India, is billed as the first of its kind. The conference is the brainchild of Rajshekhar Murthy, a Mumbai-based IT security expert, and head of Information Security at an Indian telecommunications firm. He said he hoped the conference might help to change attitudes in his native India, where even well-intentioned security and vulnerability research has historically been frowned upon. The issue of legitimizing malicious code authoring has been a prickly topic in the IT industry.
Source: https://threatpost.com/new-conference-wants-bring-malware-writers-out-shadows-082510/74383/