All Rights Reserved.We know that the 2020 conference experience has been different.
The core sessions are not under corporate sponsorship and it makes for some fresh and interesting content. However, change is not a bad thing.
So, his suggestion – and request – was for volunteers to step up and help.
In the past, we’ve been made aware of the risks posed by Social distancing means that queuing and indoor groups will be riskier, so many people will opt to take a postal vote.
This extension enables a more effective threat response but should not be the only solution, as it can increase the security team’s workload.Increased user awareness of the risks from home or remote working is essential. Welcome to Black Hat USA 2020 Now in its 23 rd year, Black Hat USA is the world's leading information security event, providing attendees with the very latest security research, development and trends. There is much we can all learn, especially in these tumultuous times. Black Hat USA 2020 will be entirely virtual this year, held over the same dates, August 1-6 in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−07:00).
For a researcher, these resources and the ability to think around corners in using them is essential to success in thwarting cyber-attacks.At the start of this article, I said that Black Hat was different and that I am looking forward to – hopefully – a return to normal in 2021. In the business hall, we saw vendors with new offerings to extend the corporate network and security into a user’s home. At home, it’s different, as not only are we using our network, but also more distracted by pets, children, package deliveries, etc.
We often don’t realize the level of potential threats that are typically blocked even before they reach our computer. This increases the workload of an already underinvested postal service, which raises the risk of missed or damaged ballot papers.
There are opportunities for presenters to propose left-field ideas.
If you can create a passable fake Tom Hanks for $100 and fool a room, imagine what would be possible for an artistic team of well-backed hackers, targeted on political confusion and disruption and funded with an investment of $1M or more?COVID-19 was, unsurprisingly, a common theme across Black Hat, with many sessions highlighting the security challenges caused by employees not only working from home, but often using their own devices. Not every session at Black Hat was technical and this is something I like about the event. There was a lot of excellent content and I recommend anyone with time to take a more in-depth look over the coming months. Threats that would previously have been visible to the SOC on a corporate network have become invisible on an employee’s home network.
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Event after event has been postponed or cancelled. There are technologies that could help with this but implementing and gaining trust with those in the next three months is unrealistic. We’re too accustomed to the automatic levels of protection afforded by our office networks.
The combination of these makes the dissemination of Deepfake by the ‘click and forget’ generation a simple task. It came as no surprise when Black Hat announced the move to an online platform a few months later.
Despite the lack of travel and in-person networking opportunities, these With the 2020 election looming, security is a hot topic. While quite the departure from typical Black Hat proposals, the extra hands would certainly be useful in ensuring a fair vote come November.Election news brings us to one of my hot topics and an area that was discussed in detail at Black Hat: We have a nation frustrated by pandemic limitations, along with a highly politically-charged upcoming U.S. election. What I enjoyed about this session is that the puzzles Matt has designed seem complicated at first blush but can be solved with research and access to online resources. The last opportunity for IT professionals to meet up was at RSA 2020 in San Francisco, which quickly soured with the revelation of two attendees tested positive for COVID a week later. This year, a session that caught my attention was from This is a topic that I have personally presented on in the past, posing that gamers could be future security researchers, due to their skill solving complex and fast-moving challenges. The last opportunity for IT professionals to meet up was at RSA 2020 in San Francisco, which quickly soured with the revelation of two attendees tested positive for COVID a week later.