Security News > 2022 > August > Black Hat and DEF CON Roundup

There was nothing typical this year at BSides LV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON - also known collectively as Hacker Summer Camp.

Video conferencing darling Zoom was highlighted at DEF CON by Patrick Wardle, founder of the Objective-See Foundation, for a hacking technique that allowed him, using the macOS version of Zoom, to elevated privileges and gain access to the entire macOS operating system.

Journalist Eduard Kovacs reported on a high-severity Realtek bug in the company's eCos SDK. Found by Faraday Security and discussed at DEF CON, the eCos SDK is used in a variety of routers, access points and network repeaters, according to his report.

Meanwhile current White House Cyber Director Chris Inglis told journalist Kim Zetter, during a DEF CON session, that he was focused on "'three waves of attacks' that have progressed in recent years," according a Nextgov report.

"This has been a crazy couple of years," according to an official DEF CON forum post.

"A global pandemic turned DEF CON 28 into DEF CON Safe Mode. Some easing of the restrictions and some strict attendance rules gave us a hybrid con for DC29. An improvement, to be sure, but something short of a full DEF CON experience We want DEF CON 30 to have the energy of a reunion In honor of all that, we're calling DEF CON 30 'Hacker Homecoming'."

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