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KSA Collabs With Black Hat Organizers To Launch @Hack Conference To Tackle International Cyber Risk

June 8, 2021/in Computer Security

Happening on November 28-30, 2021, @Hack is bringing together the world’s most prominent hackers and trainers to explore breakthrough issues, trainings and trends within the information security community.

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The event is organized by the Saudi Federation of Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones (SAFCSP), which is behind some of KSA’s prominent high-tech bootcamps and events, and in association with Informa Tech, the organizers of the renowned cybersecurity networking event series Black Hat. Bringing their global experience and industry know-how, @Hack is set to occur at the Riyadh Front Expo Centre, in a partnership with national telecoms operator STC.

The premier event is held in support of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 and SAFCSP’s mission to make one in every 100 Saudi citizens a programmer to advance the Kingdom’s distinction in the tech industry.

The three-day conference will have in-depth, hands-on technical courses on topics ranging from offensive security, to the latest techniques in penetration testing, infrastructure hacking, mobile application security, analyzing automotive electrical systems, and more.

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@Hack will feature 250 cutting-edge brands, including 40 promising startups, in its Innovation City exhibition hall. The event will feature an Executive Summit to bring together leading Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to look into the Middle East’s cybersecurity needs, including security guru and cybersecurity author Bruce Schneier. More than 250 leading infosec experts and hackers will showcase advanced research, new vulnerabilities, open-source tools and more. It has an impressive list of speakers, including former US marine and ethical hacker Bryan Seely, known as the only person to wiretap the US Security Service and FBI; Hector Monsegur, controversial hacker and former head of the Anonymous hacking group; Chris Tarbell, former FBI special agent who caught Black Hat hacker Monsegur; Shira Rubinoff, cybersecurity and blockchain advisor, who serves as President of Prime Tech Partners and SecureMySocial; Jaya Baloo, CISO at Avast; and Olivera Zatezalo, CSO at Huawei Canada.

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White House forms public-private task force to tackle Microsoft hack

March 17, 2021/in Computer Security

A task force composed of representatives from federal agencies and the private sector convened last week to discuss a “whole of government” response to the Microsoft Exchange hack, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement today.

The Unified Coordination Group established by the National Security Council included officials from the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the NSA, as well as unnamed private sector companies “based on their specific insights to this incident.”

That includes Microsoft, who the White House said developed its one-click mitigation tool for the vulnerabilities to help small businesses who may otherwise struggle to afford costly incident response services. Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The task force “discussed the remaining number of unpatched systems, malicious exploitation, and ways to partner together on incident response, including the methodology partners could use for tracking the incident, going forward,” Psaki said.

Still struggling to wrap its arms around the SolarWinds hack last year, which compromised at least nine federal agencies and a swath of state governments and private companies, the Biden administration appears to be creating a similar policy track to respond to the Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, which some information security experts have worried could be as bad or worse in terms of its impact on the IT security ecosystem.

Evidence of widespread scanning for servers vulnerable to the four zero-day flaws disclosed by Microsoft earlier this month prompted CISA and the FBI to issue a joint public advisory warning that “tens of thousands of systems in the United States” could be affected and that both nation-state hacking groups and cyber criminals “are likely among those exploiting these vulnerabilities.” Other cybersecurity researchers have worried about the potential for ransomware actors to also leverage the vulnerabilities.

“It is highly likely that malicious cyber actors will continue to use the aforementioned exploits to target and…

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