Black Hat

Though the FDA, device manufacturers, and health care providers all play a role in securing vulnerable devices, it’s providers and patients facing the brunt of the risk, according to a recent DEFCON Biohacking Village Talk.

Many IoT devices falter on random number generation, a key part of cryptography.

A bug in Amazon’s Kindle e-books, since patched, can allow an attacker to smuggle malware and gain root access to a victim’s device, steal tokens, steal or delete other sensitive data and even turn your internet-connected Kindle against your own network.

A research team from SafeBreach believe they, and any researchers who choose to adopt their method, can dramatically speed up the vulnerability disclosure process — faster than modern reversing methods and fuzzers currently allow.

In the future, that Zoom-based video of your boss may not be real. But strategies such as adopting shared secrets and multi-person authorization could thwart scammers.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas closed Black Hat Thursday evening with a keynote asking cybersecurity professionals to consider working for or with the Department of Homeland Security.

A technology-based hedge fund outlined how they were able to save millions of dollars, ingest exponentially more data and cut down on the avalanche of false positives by building their own custom SIEM.