While no smaller conference has the overpowering attraction of the Black Hat or RSA cybersecurity conferences, there are smaller events aplenty to choose from.
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Among the most impactful and widespread security vulnerabilities to be detailed at Black Hat USA 2017 is Broadpwn, a flaw in the widely deployed Broadcom WiFi chipset that affects hundreds of millions of mobile devices, including those running Android and iOS, as well as desktop macOS.
Blackhat conference is 2 days of action packed talks and activities and there are far more choices than one person can do.
New this year is the Voting Machine Hacking Village, which aims to provide insight and tools to test the security of voting machine hardware and software. "Sensitive NATO military bases in conflict zones were discovered through vulnerable SATCOM infrastructure. Stamos is no stranger to the Black Hat stage; in 2014, when he was the chief information security officer (CISO) of Yahoo, he spoke on a similar Black Hat has long been the place where researchers choose to disclose and discuss some of the most impactful security risks. Another popular topic of discussion at Black Hat USA events is the security of Apple's software.
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The annual week of security conferences in Las Vegas gets underway as security researchers prepare to detail all manner of threats that put the modern connected world at risk. The main conference followed, from August 8th until August 9th. Sign up to receive information about upcoming Black Hat events including Briefings, Trainings, speakers, and important event updates. Some geeks like to pretend otherwise, but that will be harder this year during hacker summer camp in Las Vegas, as politicians and policymakers join hackers to merge tech and policy in some much-anticipated talks.Here are our top seven talks to watch out for this year in Las Vegas. “As a result of our research, we could have impersonated hundreds of people by breaking their PGP keys, mimicked thousands of servers thanks to their factored SSH keys and performed MitM attacks on over 200k websites relying on vulnerable X509 certificates,” the abstract states. They were able to collect over 300 million keys and now they can test all new RSA keys against the initial database, and in a very short period of time.
This year we saw record-breaking visitor numbers at both Black Hat and DEF CON are both focused on discovering and discussing vulnerabilities, but we heard one interesting thing said at DEF CON by the founder of both conferences, Our team visited both conferences held during the summer in Las Vegas, and we even met some of you guys (Hey you!) The description was submitted by the Conference Organizer. Subscribe to access expert insight on business technology - in an ad-free environment.. CSO provides news, analysis and research on security and risk management Basically anyone can publish their paper in this way and use the recognition from being published toward getting higher salaries if they’re professors, and even selling medication that allegedly cures cancer!Until this research began, the fake science factory was going unnoticed, possibly even costing people their lives when fraudulent scientists were selling them medication to cure life-threatening diseases.
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Live Events USA. In this talk, we will cover the threats facing Android users, using both specific examples from previous Black Hat conferences and published research, as well as previously unpublished threats.
Multiple breaches in recent years have been attributed to attackers somehow gaining access to a company's cloud credentials.Could a hacker or nation-state take over an entire city of smart devices? Unfortunately, there may be vulnerabilities in the implementation of the code.The researchers created a key reaping machine that collected keys for testing for vulnerabilities.