Black Hats hide malicious code in images to evade detection, spread malware, and launch attacks. Learn how they do it.

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This week in Las Vegas, hundreds of cybersecurity vendors are on hand for the Black Hat USA 2024 conference—many of them with new tools or product capabilities ready to unveil. At one of the ...

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This week in Las Vegas, top cybersecurity vendors are among those on hand for the Black Hat USA 2023 conference, and many are unveiling new products and services aimed at keeping up with—or ...

The white hat’s job is to secure each and every point of contact, while the black hat’s goal is to find just one that’s insecure. Whether black hat or white hat, it also helps a lot to know ...

GRAPEVINE — Pete Kwiatkowski and Kyle Flood showed up at Wednesday night’s Cotton Bowl press conference wearing custom-made black cowboy hats. And big smiles. The Texas defensive and offensive ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Black Hat, the cybersecurity industry’s most established and in-depth security event series, today announced the successful completion of the in-person component of ...

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