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 [...]
It's that time of year again to venture to Las Vegas for those two big conferences. But there are a few other things also going on this month. Here is a list of events going on this month in the information security space. Black Hat USA 2008 Training and Briefings: August 1-7 DEFCON 16: August [...]
The three day Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security finished today. We were not able to attend this event, but from the program information, there was some interesting research on usability revealed during the symposium. The majority of the research papers and slides are now online for your viewing. One of the most talked about [...]
Similar to yesterday's HOPE Carnival post, here is a carnival of interesting things said about The Last HOPE conference on twitter. crackhead : Domino's Pizza has the largest consumer db of all, and they sell it. Nearly all law enforcement agencies have purchased it. blogstar : RABBI - Relationship and Activity Analysis and Behaviour Informant. [...]
I wasn't able to attend The Last HOPE conference, so instead I will run a carnival of all the interesting things from The Last HOPE that I find. the trackable last hope conference badge wikiscanner 2.0 the impossibility of hardware obfuscation Hacking Medeco locks For the love of lock picking Hacking with no technology Tracking [...]
The Princeton/Wind River/EFF team just released their memory research tools at The Last HOPE conference. The bios_memimage tool is written in C and uses PXE to boot the machine and copy the memory. The package also has a disk boot dumper with instructions for how to run it on an iPod. There's also efi_memimage which [...]
The Last HOPE conference starts today, and for those that aren't able to physically attend, here are a few ways to virtually attend. HOPE Radio - Listen to the live audio stream of The Last HOPE Monitor #thelasthope twitter posts via Hashtags or TweetScan Update: amazonv and quine are doing an awesome job of posting [...]
DeepSec is an in-depth security conference in Vienna, Austria. Last year it was held on November 20th through the 23rd, and from the speaker lineup, it looked like a very good conference. Everyone can now enjoy the presentations, as the DeepSec 2007 videos are online at Google video. Here are some of the DeepSec 2007 [...]