Category: Hacking & Pen Testing

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It was great to help organize R00tz (Def Con Kids Village) again this year, and to have a chance to give ITSP Magazine an inside look at our program and kid hackers!

https://www.itspmagazine.com/itsp-chronicles/r00tz-asylum-at-defcon-26-the-future-of-cybersecurity-is-looking-good

The US Army put on a bug bounty program, highlighting pen testing techniques at Black Hat and R00tz Asylum in Las Vegas this past week at the Defcon hacking conference. They will bring this same program for both kids and adults to CornCon in Davenport, Iowa on September 8, 2018. Join us there!

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Black Hat Review Board Members give their picks for must see presentations this week at Black Hat USA 2018. They have broken down the 2018 cybersecurity exploit trends into 6 categories:

1. Software Development
   1. Breaking Parser Logic, Lagoon JKL, WED 4PM
   2. AI & ML in Cybersecurity: Why Algorithms Are Dangerous, South Seas ABE, THU 11AM
   Policy
   1. Legal Liability for IoT Hacking, Lagoon JKL, THU 2:30PM
   Network Defenses
   1. ZEROing Trust: Do Zero Trust Models Provide Real Security, South Seas CDF, WED 4PM
   Hardware Platform Security
   1. Meltdown: Basics, Details, Consequences, South Pacific F, WED 2:40PM
   2. GOD Mode Unlocked: Hardware Backdoors in x86 CPUs, South Pacific F, THU 11AM
   Web Application Security
   1. Practical Web Cache Poisoning: Redefining ‘Unexploitable’, South Seas CDF, THU 3PM
   Human Factor
   1. Infosec Philosophies for a Corrupt Economy, Islander EI, WED 5:05PM
   2. Demystifying PTSD in the Cybersecurity Environment, South Seas ABE, THU 9AM

   For more details, visit the Black Hat Briefings 2018 agenda here: https://www.blackhat.com/us-18/briefings.html

Understand real threats. Why you should only take a burner laptop to high risk countries. You can’t trust the firmware and chipsets, let alone the OS. Wiping and rebuilding is sometimes not enough.

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