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Rep. Will Hurd will no longer give the keynote address at the Black Hat security conference amid questions about his voting record on women’s rights. Hurd, a Texas Republican congressman, was sc

A decision to confirm Rep. Will Hurd as the keynote speaker at the Black Hat security conference this year has prompted anger and concern by some long-time attendees because of his voting record on wo

Here are four cybersecurity terms that will root many conversations, both on the expo floor and among experts and analysts in the briefing rooms at Black Hat.

Remember <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/08/05/new-zero-day-exploit-can-completely-brick-your-mac/">Thunderstrike 2</a>? Last summer, Xeno Kovah and Trammell Hudson <a href="https://techcrunch.co

We live in a cyberpunk novel. Every major nation-state clandestinely develops (and/or purchases) carefully targeted malware, and constantly probes—or penetrates—other nations’ defenses while des

Greetings from the gaudy hellscape of Las Vegas, and that overcrowded maelstrom of surly hackers known as DEF CON! What follows is a brief rundown of the talks here (and its big corporate sister Black

It's Black Hat season, meaning that we are getting a new batch of zero-day exploits showing how insecure our gadgets are. Xeno Kovah and Trammell Hudson found a serious zero-day vulnerability in OS X

So far this week, at Black Hat, I have learned to deeply mistrust: passwords, chip-and-PIN cards, USB devices, HTTPS connections, more than two billion phones, governments worldwide, all human societi

Can your computer be hacked? Yep. Can your phone be hacked? Yep. Have your passwords been harvested? Very possibly. (The NYT just reported that one Russian group has <em>more than a billion</em>, thou

There's nothing like attendance at the annual <a target="_blank" href="https://www.blackhat.com/‎">Black Hat</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.defcon.org/‎">DefCon</a> security/hacker c

<a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_B._Alexander">General Keith Alexander</a>, head of the NSA, gave the keynote speech at the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.blackhat.com/