Tag: Black Hat

  • Photo gallery: Black Hat USA 2017

    Black Hat USA 2017 is underway at Las Vegas, and here are a few photos from the Business Hall and the Arsenal. Featured companies: Read full news article on Help Net Security  

  • Facebook Donates $1M in New Funds for Internet Security at Black Hat

    Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer at Facebook announces new investments from the social media giant to help improve internet security, including the Defending Digital Democracy project. Read full news article on eWeek  

  • Garbage in, garbage out: a cautionary tale about machine learning

    Here’s the thing about machine learning: use the right datasets and it’ll help you root out malware with great accuracy and efficiency. Read full news article on Naked Security  

  • Win a security gap assessment from NTT Security at Black Hat

    This year at Black Hat 2017, NTT Security is focusing on incident response readiness: one lucky show participant will win a thorough security gap assessment from the NTT Security Incident Response team valued at approximately $15,000 based on 40 hours of professional services. Read full news article on Help Net Security  

  • Inside the Black Hat USA 2017 Security Conference WiFi Network

    VIDEO: Heather Williams, solutions engineer at Ruckus, provides a walk-through of the WiFi deployment at the Black Hat USA 2017 security conference, that she calls ‘The Wild West’. Read full news article on eWeek  

  • Black Hat 2017: Hacking the physical world

    For years, attacks against physical industrial plants have been either largely theoretical, or the sophisticated realm of nation-states. While we have spent time looking precisely at this style of attack in other posts, it seems a host of attack automation tools and techniques are starting to hit the streets, as highlighted here at Black Hat.…

  • Black Hat: Hacking the physical world

    For years, attacks against physical industrial plants have been either largely theoretical, or the sophisticated realm of nation-states. While we have spent time looking precisely at this style of attack in other posts, it seems a host of attack automation tools and techniques are starting to hit the streets, as highlighted here at Black Hat.…

  • Black Hat speaker denied entry to US in another needless hit to security research

    It’s the nightmare situation nobody wants to be in. “C’est juste un peu frustrant,” Read full news article on ZDNet  

  • 20 Hot Sessions: Black Hat 2017

    Black Hat, which turns 20, runs this week at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. (Photo: Read full news article on bankinfosecurity.com  

  • Black Hat USA 2017: Machine learning is not a silver bullet for security

    The framework takes a game-like approach, accesses the system, learns about the system, and figures out how it can be attacked and how it can evade an attack. “Reinforcement learning has produced models that top human performance in a myriad of games. Read full news article on SD Times  

  • How to Exploit RAT Command and Control Toolkits Detailed at Black Hat

    LAS VEGAS– There is a prevailing theme across many security breach reports that attackers are using increasingly sophisticated and advanced tools. According to Waylon Grange, Senior Threat Researcher at Symantec, that’s not necessarily the case, as many remote access malware tools are neither advanced nor sophisticated. Read full news article on eWeek  

  • Black Hat 2017 Security Conference Set to Reveal New Threats

    The annual week of security conferences in Las Vegas gets underway as security researchers prepare to details all manner of threats that put the modern connected world at risk. Read full news article on eWeek  

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