Black Hat 2020: Influence Campaigns Are a Cybersecurity Problem
An inside look at how nation-states use social media to influence, confuse and divide — and why cybersecurity researchers should be involved.
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Black Hat 2020: Mercedes-Benz E-Series Rife with 19 Bugs
Researchers went into detail about the discovery and disclosure of 19 security flaws they found in Mercedes-Benz vehicles, which have all been fixed.
Black Hat 2020: Satellite Comms Globally Open to $300 Eavesdropping Hack
Attackers can listen in on internet traffic for high-value targets a continent away, like shipping fleets and oil installations, using some basic home-television gear.
At Black Hat 2020, Patrick Wardle disclosed an exploit chain that bypasses Microsoft’s malicious macros protections to infect MacOS users.
Black Hat 2020 session discusses how high-wattage connected devices like dishwashers and heating systems can be recruited into botnets and used to manipulate energy markets.
The groups, all tied to the Winnti supply-chain specialist gang, were seen using the same Linux rootkit and backdoor combo.
Voting machine technology seller Election Systems & Software (ES&S) offered an olive branch to security researchers with new safe harbor terms and vulnerability disclosure policies at Black Hat USA 2020.
Voting Village security celeb Matt Blaze delves into the logistics of scaling up mail-in voting ahead of November’s election.
The explosion of open-source AI models are lowering the barrier of entry for bad actors to create fake video, audio and images – and Facebook, Twitter and other platforms aren’t ready.
Researchers disclosed critical flaws in the popular Meetup service at Black Hat USA 2020 this week, which could allow takeover of Meetup “Groups.”
