Cybersecurity Still Runs on Community, Say Packet Protector Hosts
Packet Protector hosts Drew Conry-Murray and JJ Jabbusch explain why mentorship, community, and accessible education remain cybersecurity's greatest strengths.
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Water Utility Attacks in Multiple States Show the Cost of One Old Vulnerability
The latest wave of intrusions at municipal water systems follows the same playbook as Unitronics and Oldsmar because no one is closing the door.
AI Arms Both Sides. Defenders Win on Fundamentals, Not Firepower
While the panel cited threat intelligence and management, autonomous pen testing and code reviews, SOC automation, and much more, when they asked how they were countering AI-generated phishing and deepfakes, they leaned heavily into the security essentials.
ISC2 Begins Development of AI Security Certification, Opens Global Volunteer Effort
ISC2 has started developing a vendor-neutral AI Security certification and is seeking cybersecurity professionals to help define its knowledge domains and exam content. We caught up with ISC2 CISO Jon France at Black Hat for an update.
Cyber Resilience Starts with Supply Chain Diversity
A cyberattack on one supplier shouldn't stop an entire industry. Here's why supply chain diversity is essential to cyber resilience.
Breaches Don’t Kill Companies. Being Unprepared Does.
From BSidesLV 2026: Adrian Sanabria built "Destroyed By Breach" to cut through cybersecurity myth-making. What he found is more uncomfortable than the fear-driven narrative the industry often sells.
Is Grey Hair the New Gold in Cybersecurity?
The industry treats experience as the ultimate proxy for trust. But in doing so, it's quietly locking out the people it keeps insisting it can't find.
What Security Is For: A Better Way to Measure Success
Black Hat fills the Las Vegas desert with exploits, defenses, products, arguments, and ingenious machinery. Beneath all of it lies a simpler question: what kind of life are we trying to protect?
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BSidesLV Adds Dedicated AI Security Track As [un]prompted Brings Practitioner-First Agenda to Hacker Summer Camp
BSides Las Vegas debuts its [un]prompted AI Security track with sessions on prompt injection, agentic AI, GitHub exploits and AI defense.
Enterprise AI Security Debt Grows as ERP AI Adoption Rises
Organizations are rapidly embedding AI into ERP systems despite rising AI-powered attacks and low confidence in their ability to detect them.
Open Secure AI Alliance Pushes Open-Source AI Defense
The Open Secure AI Alliance aims to strengthen AI security with open-source tools. Can open defense outpace AI threats?
Hacker Summer Camp Preview: Topics at Black Hat, BSidesLV, DefCon
Also this week: How not to build a security vendor booth, how we got ants in cybersecurity and why Human Risk Management and mental health matter more than ever.
DDoS Smokescreens Miss the Real Story
DDoS attacks aren't just distractions. Learn why they reshape defender decisions and create opportunities beyond downtime.
Security Theater Is Costing CISOs More Than They Think
Security theater wastes budgets and creates false confidence. Here's why CISOs must prioritize threats instead of buying more tools.