{"id":12045,"date":"2014-08-28T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12045"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:05:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:05:32","slug":"dont-get-hacked-at-black-hat-and-defcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/dont-get-hacked-at-black-hat-and-defcon","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Get Hacked at Black Hat and DefCon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/securitywatch.pcmag.com\/author-bio\/neil-j.-rubenking\">Neil J. Rubenking<\/a> \u2014 PC<br \/>\n<br \/> The trainings component of the 2014 Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas has already begun. Press folk aren\u2019t invited for trainings, but SecurityWatch will be there to cover the briefings Wednesday and Thursday. The briefings can be shocking. In past years, researchers revealed a technique to <a href=\"http:\/\/securitywatch.pcmag.com\/hacking\/314361-black-hat-don-t-plug-your-phone-into-a-charger-you-don-t-own\">pwn any iOS device<\/a> using a gimmicked charger, described a technique for <a href=\"http:\/\/securitywatch.pcmag.com\/security\/314402-smart-bot-reads-your-facebook-mimics-you-in-spear-phishing-messages\">mining your Twitter feed<\/a> to create convincing phishing emails, and demonstrated an Android weakness that would allow hackers to <a href=\"http:\/\/securitywatch.pcmag.com\/hacking\/314384-black-hat-multiple-master-key-vulnerabilities-afflict-android\">Trojanize an Android app undetectably<\/a>. And those were all part of the relatively sedate Black Hat; things get even hairier at the wild and woolly DefCon that follows.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s best hackers flock to these conferences, people who live and breathe security and hacking. They don\u2019t stop trying to hack all the things just because they\u2019re at a conference. In fact, DefCon features a \u201cWall of Sheep\u201d to publicly shame any attendees careless enough to get hacked. If you\u2019re attending, you\u2019ll want to crank up your paranoia and be as careful as possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/securitywatch.pcmag.com\/hacking\/326083-don-t-get-hacked-at-black-hat-and-defcon\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Neil J. Rubenking \u2014 PC The trainings component of the 2014 Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas has already begun. Press folk aren\u2019t invited for trainings, but SecurityWatch will be there to cover the briefings Wednesday and Thursday. The briefings can be shocking. In past years, researchers revealed a technique to pwn any [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64919,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions\/64919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}