What to Expect at Black Hat 2021

guest · Aug 4, 2021

What to Expect at Black Hat 2021
August 4, 2021
https://medium.com/pcmag-access/what-to-expect-at-black-hat-2021-58e54a14ca3b

The COVID-19 outbreak forced many large conferences to either move online or cancel altogether. In 2020, the Black Hat hacker convention chose to go online-only for the first time in its decades-long history. This year, Black Hat is back in its natural habitat (the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas), but some of us will still be attending from home.
A Virtually In-Person Event
Anyone willing to brave an airplane and the crowds can attend sessions, parties, and the usual hacker revelry that accompanies these events.
Everyone else will be able to watch the show from the comfort of their own homes [...]
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Busted Supply Chain
Matt Tait, formerly of the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and currently the COO of Corellium, is kicking the conference off with a look at the increasing risks that come with our interconnected world of enterprise services as well as a newly remote workforce.

The scale of SolarWinds and recent ransomware attacks have also drawn the attention of governments and law enforcement. Jen Easterly, the recently confirmed Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), will outline a vision for unity against shared digital threats in her keynote.
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This year will include the perennial efforts of iOS jailbreakers to punch past Apple’s restrictions, but there’s much more besides.
One team will be showing off their efforts at building a 5G IMSI catcher, similar to the fake base station attacks we’ve seen at Black Hat before.

These are just a few of the themes we’re expecting at Black Hat 2021, but it’s always hard to tell what the big story will be coming out of this event.
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guest · Aug 10, 2021

Security tools showcased at Black Hat USA 2021
August 8, 2021
https://therecord.media/security-tools-showcased-at-black-hat-usa-2021/

While everyone associates the Black Hat security conference with high-profile keynotes and state-of-the-art cybersecurity research, ever since the 2017 edition, the conference has also been the place where the cybersecurity community has also announced and released security tools part of the lesser-known “Arsenal” track.

While The Record is not going to list each and every tool, we selected the most interesting releases from this year’s conference below: [...]
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