Welcome to Black Hat, where the attendees are the threat

Re:Welcome to Black Hat, where the attendees are the threat by roblabla on Friday August 09, 2019 @04:53PM (#20658173)

Did you watch any of the BlackHat talks? We're very much talking about cybersecurity professionals - there's no faking that level of expertise. And just like any cybersecurity conference, there are people from all sides coming - likely both on the offensive and defensive sides. And yeah, of course the feds are there: cybersecurity is also part of their job.

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Re:Welcome to Black Hat, where the attendees are the threat by Avery3R on Friday August 09, 2019 @05:04PM (#20658245)

The only people that call the field "cybersecurity" are the feds, and people trying to make money from the feds.

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Re:Welcome to Black Hat, where the attendees are the threat by 95014_refugee on Friday August 09, 2019 @09:44PM (#20659647)

I wish that were (still) the case, because listening to someone talking about "cyber"-anything makes me feel like a 5-year-old.

Sadly the term has stuck, and making fun of it these days has reduced to just maturity/age-signalling.

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Re:Welcome to Black Hat, where the attendees are the threat by unethical_ban on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:20AM (#20675626)

Who are you to say? What would be the "correct" term, my gatekeeper? Information Security? Anti-Cracking? Black Hate Defense?

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