Tag: Def Con
The Unlikely Romance of Hackers and Government Suitors
COMMENTARYEach spring, the annual Hack the Capitol event brings together a diverse group of scientists, hackers, and policymakers to educate congressional staffers, scholars, and the...
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Security Conferences Keep Us Honest
In August on a stage at Black Hat USA, I described in detail how Microsoft guest accounts could gain access to view and manipulate...
Realism Reigns on AI at Black Hat and DEF CON
It’s been a rapid evolution, even for the IT industry. At 2022's edition of Black Hat, CISOs were saying that they didn’t want to...
OpenAI snaps up role-playing game dev as first acquisition
AI in brief OpenAI has acquired its first company, Global Illumination, creators of an online role-playing game that has been compared to Minecraft.
The financial...
Evacuation of 30,00 hackers – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Video DEF CON, the annual hacker convention in Las Vegas, was interrupted on Saturday evening when authorities evacuated the event's venue due to...
DEF CON 31: US DoD urges hackers to go and hack ‘AI’
Digital Security, Secure Coding The limits of current AI need to be tested before we can rely on their output Tony Anscombe ...
DEF CON 31: Robot vacuums may be doing more than they claim
Internet of Things, Privacy When it comes to privacy, it remains complicated and near impossible for a consumer to make an informed decision....
3 Major Email Security Standards Prove Too Porous for the Task
Email security standards are proving porous where malicious email attacks are concerned, since attackers use a deceptive link or new domains that comply with...
Black Hat 2023: Hacking the police (at least their radios)
Critical Infrastructure, Cybercrime Hiding behind a black box and hoping no one will hack it has been routinely proven to be unwise and...
Black Hat 2023 – AI gets big defender prize money
Digital Security Black Hat is big on AI this year, and for a good reason Cameron Camp 14 Aug 2023 • ,...
Black Hat 2023: Cyberwar fire-and-forget-me-not
Critical Infrastructure, Malware What happens to cyberweapons after a cyberwar? Cameron Camp 11 Aug 2023 • , 3 min. read ...
Dell Credentials Bug Opens VMware Environments to Takeover
Hardcoded credentials in the Dell Compellent storage array service could enable attackers to take over enterprise VMware environments for any organizations running those two...
DARPA Launches 2-Year Contest to Build AI Tools to Fix Vulnerabilities
BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Wednesday, Aug. 9 — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will sponsor a two-year competition to...
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