Thursday, July 30, 2015

Black Hat 2015: Cool talks, hot threat intel (ZDNet)

With Black Hat USA 2015 starting in just a few days, we've got a shortlist of the hottest talks slated for this year's largest domestic professional infosec conference.
blackhat usa 2015

With Black Hat USA 2015 starting in just a few days, we've got a shortlist of the hottest talks slated for this year's largest domestic professional infosec conference.

Black Hat turns 18 as it returns to Las Vegas from August 1-6 -- for six days of trainings, over 100 talks, acres of booths and displays in the Expo Hall, all the biggest company names in information security on display... and a smorgasbord of events tailored to hackers, corporate information security professionals, and government infosec pros.

This year's lineup of must-see presentations is overwhelming, and there are dozens upon dozens of critical, newsworthy talks to choose from -- and if you're attending in any capacity, making your final decisions on talks won't be easy.

We recommend using our short list below as a starting point to inspire your planning. Speaking of planning ahead, we also recommend that you peruse Rapid7's Black Hat Attendee Guide, covering general survival, how to get the most out of talks, networking and more.

Black Hat USA's 2015 topics read like a what's-what of everything important to those working in today's most-watched business sector -- information security and technology.

Hot themes include request forgery, threat intel, machine learning, data exfiltration, ransomware, fuzzing, car hacking, and -- of course -- enough talks to make you think that Mandalay Bay is offering an all-you-can-eat malware buffet. Oh, and don't forget this year's Pwnie Awards, featuring both OPM and Ashley Madison in a neck-and-neck nomination for Most Epic FAIL.

Here's our cherry-picked shortlist of hot talks to see at Black Hat USA 2015.

BANKING AND POINT OF SALE

Talk: Winning The Online Banking War

Speaker: Sean Park

Talk: Crash & Pay: How To Own And Clone Contactless Payment Devices

Speaker: Peter Fillmore

CONSUMER THREATS

Talk: Zigbee Exploited The Good The Bad And The Ugly

Speakers: Tobias Zillner, Sebastian Strobl

Talk: Thunderstrike 2: Sith Strike

Speakers: Trammell Hudson, Xeno Kovah, Corey Kallenberg

CRIME AND INFOSEC

Talk: BGP Stream

Speakers: Dan Hubbard, Andree Toonk

Talk: Breaking Honeypots For Fun And Profit

Speakers: Dean Sysman, Gadi Evron, Itamar Sher

Talk: Getting It Right: Straight Talk On Threat & Information Sharing

Speakers: Trey Ford, Kevin Bankston, Rebekah Brown, Brian Engle, Mark Hammell

Talk: Take A Hacker To Work Day - How Federal Prosecutors Use The CFAA

Speaker: Leonard Bailey

ESPIONAGE AND SPYING

Talk: Cloning 3g/4g Sim Cards With A PC And An Oscilloscope: Lessons Learned In Physical Security

Speaker(s): Yu Yu

Talk: Emanate Like A Boss: Generalized Covert Data Exfiltration With Funtenna

Speaker: Ang Cui

Talk: Big Game Hunting: The Peculiarities Of Nation-State Malware Research

Speakers: Morgan Marquis-Boire, Marion Marschalek, Claudio Guarnieri




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