This years’ SWAG bag for Black Hat USA 2008 is pretty cool. Included in the bag is a Moleskine like notebook, Paypal OTP token, Black Hat pen/highlighter, Black Hat sticker and of course all the presentations from the conference. The shoulder bag is actually useable, which is somewhat rare for conference bags. Thanks Black Hat!

Black Hat has embraced the social networking site Twitter for this year’s Black Hat Briefings USA 2008. Follow the official Black Hat USA 2008 account on Twitter and get live updates from the conference. There are also a bunch of "Security Twits" attending this year’s event and the best way to track all the chatter [...]

Black Hat USA is only a few days away, and I think the conference gets bigger each year. There are eight different tracks during the Black Hat Briefings, and many of the presentations sound interesting. Because there are so many choices, we decided to gather our top give picks for sessions you can’t afford to [...]

I’ve been to seven other Black Hat events starting around the year 2000. So what makes me keep coming back? Here are my top 5 reasons to attend Black Hat USA.

This was my first time at the Hacker Halted conference, and it was quite enjoyable. I loved the venue, and the talks were informative.
One major disappointment was that Howard Schmidt didn’t talk as planned due to travel issues. It’s not the conference’s fault, [...]

Another conference that I wasn’t able to attend due to international travel was Black Hat Europe. The conference was last month, in wonderful Amsterdam. Presentations are now online at Black Hat.
Some of the presentations that interested me:

0-Day Patch - Exposing Vendors (In)Security Performance
Intercepting Mobile Phone/GSM Traffic
Developments in Cisco IOS Forensics
The Fundamentals of Physical Security

For the [...]