Hacking away in Las Vegas
This week, thousands of people interested in all sorts of hacking are gathering in Nevada. They’re headed to two conferences, Black Hat and Defcon, which are well known to the cybersecurity industry. But a thriving ecosystem of other meet-ups, tear downs, and other tech events are happening in Vegas as well.
One of the meetings this week is the Password Con, a two day event.
Sophos Cybersecurity expert Chester Wisniewski describes the event as, “kind of all the global minds in security coming together to figure out this authentication problem.”
There is arguably enough happening on that front for there to be a separate conference on passwords alone.
The audience at the conference, according to Wisniewski, is “nerds of every security stripe” — criminal hackers, government spies, security professionals, and ethical hackers.
He says privacy and mobile are at the top of mind this year — the hacker side of the community is very interested in maintaining privacy, especially in the face of the continuing to unfold NSA revelations.
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