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!

Because Techno Security 2008 and the Access Data User’s Conference was held during the same time as Hacker Halted, there were a decent amount of vendors on the expo floor. Most of the vendors were forensics oriented like Guidance and Access Data, but I was happy to see Core Security there. Even the NSA, FBI, [...]

While I had a good time talking to vendors on the RSA expo floor, I had a better time running around trying to find cool SWAG (stuff we all get). I tried to stay away from tshirts, but I did end up getting a few of those too. Some of the cool / useful items [...]