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  Black Hat's most notorious incidents: A quiz

  A look back at previous Black Hat conferences reveals why it's such a big draw – presenters continue to deliver briefings that shock, amaze and amuse. See how well you remember some notorious incidents by taking this quiz. Keep track of your score and see how you rate at the end of the slideshow.

  Black Hat's most notorious incidents: A quiz

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News about black hat

• Top cyber security products unveiled at Black Hat 2022

  Here are some of the most interesting new products launched at Black Hat 2022.

• Fear and hacking on the bug bounty trail

  The world’s best white hat hackers come to Sydney to help Atlassian break its products

• Four free tools for handling Amazon Web Services security incident response

  Researchers presented four tools at Black Hat 2016 that they wrote specifically to deal with incident response in AWS.

• Qualcomm-powered Android devices plagued by four rooting flaws

  Qualcomm has released patches for the flaws, but Google included only three of them in its Android security updates so far

• High-security electronic safes can be hacked through power and timing analysis

  Researcher shows that variations in voltage and execution times can expose the correct access codes for electronic safe locks

• Why the ‘cyber kill chain’ needs an upgrade

  From Black Hat conference: Security pros need to focus more on catching attackers after they’ve broken in

Features about black hat

• Black Hat Europe: IoT devices can hack phones

  Black Hat demo shows Belkin WeMo devices stealing pictures, monitoring the location of Android phone

• Bugs & Bugs: DARPA, bug bounties & thousands of bees

  Facebook Live stream captures latest news on computer bugs & real insects

• Black Hat: 9 free security tools for defense & attacking

  Some of the researchers who at Black Hat will show how they hack and release the tools they used to do it

• Bugs & Bugs: National Moth Week, PHP, Black Hat & more

  Edible insects, Pornhub bug bounty & Zica prevention at the Rio Olympics all come up on Bugs & Bugs Facebook Live event

• At Black Hat: A free tool for spear phishing Twitter

  Twitter accounts are a good place to try spear phishing because of the combination of language used, APIs to rich data and use of shortened ...

• Blackhat movie: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  The movie does, in fact, have some interesting things to say about the kinds of cyberthreats we're now up against