Black Hat

Two months ago, this was supposed to be the back-to-normal Black Hat and DefCon. Then a COVID outbreak at RSAC happened. Would Vegas be worth it? SC Media's Joe Uchill did go, and spoke to attendees about their own decision to attend and whether the fear (again) of the hacker conference becoming (another) spreader event impacted the experience.

At the Black Hat conference on Wednesday, the chair of the Cyber Safety Review Board said its initial review of the Log4j vulnerability “proved the concept” behind the board’s work and promised more action in the coming months.

Society at large is getting more vulnerable and less capable of safely navigating the complex cybersecurity landscape, said former CISA Director Chris Krebs at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas.

SC Media caught up with the chief research officer at Finnish cybersecurity firm WithSecure to hear what risk might look like as rapid increases in computing power usher in an era of building "with no restrictions."

An analysis released by CyCognito found a stark difference between companies that rushed to identify and close off assets that were exposed to the corrupted Apache code early, and those that did not.

The company’s pen testing group jammed the new research and reconnaissance tools into SCMKit, an attack simulation toolkit unveiled at Black Hat.

As funding divvied to cyber startups continues to explode, founders face a new dilemma: When and from whom do they accept the millions of dollars?

Are supply chain attacks and software interdependence creating an existential crisis for the cybersecurity industry?