Blog Posts Tagged with "Black Hat Conference"
Microsoft BlueHat: Five Questions with Katie Moussouris
September 12, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
One of the big stories from this year’s BlackHat conference was Microsoft’s inaugural BlueHat contest which challenged researchers to design a novel runtime mitigation technology designed to prevent the exploitation of memory safety vulnerabilities. Katie Moussouris discusses...
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Real World Information Security
September 05, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
Alex uncovered a poorly designed web page and convinced it to give up its secrets. What followed was a quick RDP war trying to plant our backdoor. I found myself with root level access having blasted away at it using Metasploit and uncovered several Easter eggs instructors had planted...
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On Surviving Black Hat
August 03, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
The sessions felt somewhat lack-luster – a lot of what I was hearing had been said before. Many of the conversations were consistent with other events and the topics felt replayed. The horrifically long coffee queue at Starbucks provided me with time to people watch, so here are my Black Hat 2012 observations...
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Blackhat, BSidesLV and DefCon Oh My... 2012 Edition
August 01, 2012 Added by:Boris Sverdlik
The upside for being in Vegas for BlackHat is that BSidesLV runs concurrently. BSides always tend to be much better events. The attendees are rarely the vendor mouthpiece types and this alone makes the conference enjoyable. I had attended more talks at BSides than I have at other conferences combined this year....
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Don’t Freak Out, It was Only DefCon
July 31, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
Disregard tales of drunken hackers menacing Vegas hotels, changing signs and doing social engineering attacks. They are good for amusement and awareness, but they are NOT really useful as a lens for viewing your organization’s risk or the steps you should be taking to protect your data. Instead, stick to the basics...
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Information Security, Hackers, and Vigilance
July 30, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
The bottom line: Attackers are always looking for mistakes, outliers, and inconsistencies so they can use them against you. This means your security programs need to be robust, resilient, measurable, and – as much as possible – consistent (vs. ad hoc)...
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Join Infosec Island and Tripwire at Black Hat USA 2012
July 10, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Black Hat remains the biggest and the most important technical security conference series in the world by delivering timely, actionable security information in a vendor-neutral environment. Infosec Island would like to extend a special thanks to Tripwire for making possible our presence at the event...
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How Hacking Can Kill
July 09, 2012 Added by:Edward Jones
Wherever you are on the internet, there’s often a virus lurking around the digital corner. A hacker will always find a new way of getting your data - and turning it into money. And as we found-out last year, hacking has progressed from threatening our data security to potentially threatening our lives...
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Infosec Island Seeks Industry Partners for Security Conferences
May 07, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Through a combination of custom content publication that features products and services, video interviews with company personnel onsite, and traditional banner ad campaigns, organizations can better leverage the impact of attendance and participation at key industry events...
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Installation of Vendor's Patch Does Not Guarantee Security
March 26, 2012 Added by:Alexander Polyakov
A vulnerability in Lotus Domino was quickly disassembled, and the resulting exploit employed, demonstrating that the existing patch could be bypassed by a critical 0-day vulnerability. The result was an attack on the Domino Controller service and a full server compromise...
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Some Thoughts on Sandboxes
March 22, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Developer should be writing good code, period. But when the pace of developing outpaces the ability to do complete software security analysis we see security organizations turning to sandboxing as a method of limiting the damage an exploited piece of code can do...
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Black Hat Europe 2012 Roundup
March 20, 2012 Added by:Javvad Malik
An underlying theme throughout the event from nearly everyone I spoke to was that people are still neglecting the basics. Rafal Los and Shane MacDougall gave an interesting talk on offensive threat modeling for attackers where they took the attackers viewpoint on threats...
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Three Key Take-Aways from Black Hat Europe 2012
March 18, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Every year we see tons of new development frameworks from IP telephony to something else the business wants - mobility, cloud, consumerization - that information security professionals only start to address and understand just as they're starting to go out of style...
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What Do You Call a BlackHat in Amsterdam?
March 16, 2012 Added by:Javvad Malik
It was my first BlackHat and I’d agreed to cover the event for Infosec Island. Those in attendance would have seen me with Jim Shields of Twist & Shout lugging around camera’s lights, microphones trying to convince people to say a few words to the camera...
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NETpeas is Taking Infosec Island to Black Hat Europe
February 02, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
NETpeas is sponsoring Infosec Island's presence at the Black Hat Europe conference in Amsterdam. The Island's Javvad Malik will be on site conducting video interviews and interjecting his trademark brand of humor while exploring cutting edge infosec trends and developments...
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Top Ten Information Security Industry All-Stars
November 04, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Messmer's list is comprised of those "who year after year demonstrate the specialized skills that make them worth listening to". Several recently gave presentations at Hacker Halted and at Black Hat, and Infosec Island was fortunate enough to have conducted video interviews with them...
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