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BlackHat 2008, Day 2
The second day of BlackHat 2008 began with a keynote speech by Rod Beckstrom, the director of NCSC (the National Cyber Security Center.) Most of this consisted of painfully strained Civil War analogies and the overuse of the word “Cyber” to describe absolutely everything. He made some good points — specifically, that in [...]
BlackHat 2008, Day 1
Today was the first day of this year’s BlackHat Briefings in Las Vegas. The biggest security conference of the year, it’s always an interesting place to be and often involves the release of new and previously unknown exploits.
The keynote speaker was Ian Angell, of the London School of Economics, who was speaking, ostensibly, about [...]
SCADA Hacking Renders Vital Infrastructure Vulnerable
Forbes.com recently had an article called “America’s Hackable Backbone” regarding the recent surge in SCADA hacking. SCADA, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition, is a truly ancient protocol, in use for over 20 years, which was not remotely designed with security in mind. At the time, SCADA was used only on dedicated networks that [...]
