As a first time DerbyCon goer, I didn’t quite know what to expect. In its sixth year, DerbyCon is well known throughout the security community, and I’ve worked with several of the speakers, a few of the organizers, and met many security vendor representatives at MISTI and past-job events.
Twenty minutes before the talk was scheduled to begin, attendees anxiously queued up outside the center ballroom to hear Chris Hadnagy present Mindreading for Fun and Profit Using DISC. Hadnagy, a renowned social engineer and DerbyCon staple, promised to share with the audience “how to use a quick and easy profiling tool to make targets feel as if you can read their minds.”
For the second time this year, Discover Financial Services reported a set of data breaches on the same day to the California Attorney General's Office.
In a settlement, the hotel chain operated by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will fork over $500K in fines and improve the security of its computer network.
On the cusp of a $4.8 billion acquisition by Verizon, Yahoo today disclosed a data breach in which a state-sponsored actor is believed to have stolen a copy of data linked to at least 500 million accounts.
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