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Subject: [ISN] The Black Hat evolution
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2014-08-27 16:35:26
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By Ira Winkler
CSO
Aug 26, 2014
When the Black Hat conference moved to the Mandalay Bay hotel, I was
curious as to what would be different. Over the years, Black Hat has
evolved into something very different than how it started. Whether it has
been a good or bad evolution depends on your perspective.
As background, I have the honor of being the first keynote speaker at the
first Black Hat conference. The original event was an add on to the Defcon
conference. At the time, Back Hat was the idea of one of the Jeff Moss'
friends who noticed that more and more corporate people were attending
Defcon. The thought was to put on a more upscale event with similar
content, and without the havoc of Defcon. The first year, at the soon to
demolished Aladdin hotel, held all attendees in a relatively small
conference room that sat less than 100 people.
The most memorable session, of course except for my own, involved hackers
talking about how they had no guilt in releasing vulnerabilities. Those
vulnerabilities inevitably caused damages, not to the vendors of the
products, but to the end users of the systems who were left unprepared to
fix the vulnerabilities, before suffering an inevitable attack.
Over the next few years, the Black Hat hype grew, which continued to grow
Black Hat attendance. Through those years, I tended to speak on Social
Engineering and related topics, and as such, I had packed audiences. Black
Hat sessions tended to be on some highly technical subjects that the
typical "suits", looking very out of place, did not understand.
[...]
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