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#BHUSA: Politics and Cyber-Defense Are Colliding

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Opening Black Hat USA in Las Vegas, Black Hat founder Jeff Moss commented on the convergence of cybersecurity and political issues and said that world events “have caught up with us and we’re being tested.”

Brittany Day
Aug 09, 2018

DEF CON Invites Kids to 'Hack the Election'

DEF CON is kicking its Voting Village hacking event up a notch this year with a contest for kids to try their hand at hacking into replica election-results websites to change vote tallies and election results.

Brittany Day
Aug 05, 2018

IEEE Calls for Strong Encryption

The IEEE this week issued a position statement in support of strong encryption and in opposition to government efforts to require backdoors.

Brittany Day
Jun 27, 2018

Ericsson's Chris Price on the need for collaboration between open source communities and projects

The open source community is a huge collection of often inter-related projects and initiatives, so how can telcos and their vendor partners best engage and benefit? In addition to his Ericsson role, Chris Price is also a Board Member of both the Linux Foundation and the OpenStack Foundation, so is ideally placed to offer advice.

Brittany Day
Jun 11, 2018

Linux Launches Deep Learning Foundation For Open Source Growth In AI

The Linux Foundation has launched the LF Deep Learning Foundation, an umbrella organisation which will support and sustain open source innovation in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning. The organisation will strive to make these critical new technologies available to developers and data scientists everywhere, said a statement published by LF.

Brittany Day
Apr 26, 2018

Red Hat looks beyond Linux

The Red Hat Linux distribution is turning 25 years old this week. What started as one of the earliest Linux distributions is now the most successful open-source company, and its success was a catalyst for others to follow its model.

Brittany Day
Apr 09, 2018

The Linux Foundation launches a deep learning foundation

Despite its name, the Linux Foundation has long been about more than just Linux. These days, it’s a foundation that provides support to other open source foundations and projects like Cloud Foundry, the Automotive Grade Linux initiative and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Today, the Linux Foundation is adding yet another foundation to its stable: the LF Deep Learning Foundation.

Brittany Day
Apr 08, 2018

Engineering Group and Open Source Initiative Partner for Enhanced Leadership in Open Source

Engineering Group, the global IT player and Italian leader in digital transformation, announced their continued sponsorship of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI is internationally recognized as the stewards of open source software, working to promote and protect open source projects, development and communities. For 20 years the organization has served as the reference point for individuals, non-profit organizations, international enterprises, and governments that recognize the critical role of open source in enabling flexibility, transparency, innovation, and added-value in technology-based products and services.

Brittany Day
Apr 06, 2018

Salted Hash: Live from DerbyCon 5.0 (Day 2)

Anthony Pell
Sep 29, 2015

Salted Hash: Live from DerbyCon 5.0 (Day 0)

Salted Hash is in Louisville, Kentucky for DerbyCon 5.0. All weekend long, in-between talks and training, this blog will be updated with various items of note from the show or thoughts form those attending. Today's starter topic is insider threats.

Dave Wreski
Sep 28, 2015

Github Open Sources a Tool That Will Teach Students to Code

Software engineers can share, shape and work jointly on code through Github. It is also a nice way to teach people to do the same thing. John Britton is Github

Alex
Sep 25, 2015

These were the biggest hacks at Black Hat and Def Con 2015

Weren't in Vegas? Here's what you need to know Hacks, exploits, vulnerabilities -- it's time to showcase them all. In a ten-day security extravaganza in Las Vegas, NV, the world's best security experts, hackers, and researchers come together to show the world how utterly unsafe it is.

Alex
Aug 31, 2015

Linus Torvalds Talks Linux Security at LinuxCon

At the annual LinuxCon event here, Linux creator Linus Torvalds revealed how he thinks about security. Torvalds was onstage with Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin, who asked the Linux founder how he feels about being the boss of Linux.

Dave Wreski
Aug 20, 2015

Securing Black Hat From Black Hat

Securing Black Hat from Black Hat sounds like a great tagline, but it

Anthony Pell
Aug 17, 2015

I spent the week with over 20,000 hackers in Las Vegas

DEFCON is one of the largest hacker conferences in the world. Held for four days every August in Last Vegas, DEFCON is now in it's 23rd year and is bigger (and scarier) than ever.

Alex
Aug 17, 2015

Security News This Week: The Pentagon Got Hacked While You Were at Def Con

Def Con is underway, and WIRED has been busy breaking news from some of the biggest stories from the conference, such as: hacking a Wi-Fi connected rifle. Hacking and fixing a Tesla. Hacking into a Brinks safe. Hacking into an electric skateboard. Oh, and let

Alex
Aug 11, 2015

Imploding Barrels and Other Highlights From Hackfest DefCon

This year marked the 23rd DefCon, the hacker conference that began as an informal gathering for hackers to meet in person and party in the desert. Since its beginning, it has grown from fewer than 100 attendees to reportedly more than 20,000 all of them jammed into two hotels this year

Alex
Aug 11, 2015

Granick: Dream of Internet Freedom

The Internet is barreling down the same road of regulation and not-so-subtle censorship that has turned every other means of mass communication into a centralized and vanilla fountain of useless information. Kinda like television.

Alex
Aug 07, 2015

Black Hat: Hackers urged to protect Internet freedom

Security researchers need to fight for the rights to study, modify and reverse engineer Internet hardware and software or the general population risks losing Internet freedom, the Black Hat 2015 conference was told.

Anthony Pell
Aug 06, 2015

Black Hat USA: Empowering Women In Security

There's been plenty of debate over why there are so few women in information security, a field where there's a gaping talent gap and plenty of unfilled jobs. Women continue to make up only about 10% of the industry: and even more disconcerting, some data indicates a trend in women leaving the industry.

Alex
Aug 05, 2015

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