“Few environments provide a more target-rich environment for cyber criminals than the estimated 17,000 information security experts gathered in Las Vegas this week for the annual Black Hat security conference. Cyber threats at the show can be abundant. ‘We see it all,’ Black Hat General Manage...
In this top ranking talk from Black Hat 2016, Jason Healey discusses which technologies allow a defender to efficiently outpace attackers....
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Top officers from each of the military branches warned a House Armed Services subcommittee that sequestration would be devastating to cybersecurity. More here. The Department of Homeland Security is standing up 13 po...
China is stealing online information from the United States and feeding the data to homegrown companies for commercial benefit, Michael Hayden, Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency said at the Black Hat Technical Security Conference in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday....
via DesignNews Each succeeding Black Hat Technical Security forum, a conference aimed at both freelance and sponsored hackers, seems to veer into arcane fields of embedded devices where the security concerns might appear a little far-fetched. In fact, it seems many Black Hat attendees are leaving t...
via SearchSecurity.com Both white hat and black hat security researchers alike today received a sobering warning from the Central Intelligence Agency’s former director of operations: The opportunity has never been greater to foster government cybersecurity awareness, now that the threat paradigm a...
via CRN Kicking off the Black Hat USA Conference in Las Vegas, founder and director Jeff Moss imparted that while the threat landscape is increasingly sophisticated, complex and volatile, there’s a collective raised awareness within organizations and international governments about the necessi...
via Associated Free Press SAN FRANCISCO — The agency in charge of the world’s Internet addresses on Thursday appointed veteran hacker Jeff Moss to be its chief of security. Moss, whose hacker name is Dark Tangent, is the founder of Black Hat computer security conferences as well as an infamo...