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Scaling up mail-in voting, Blaze said, with less than 100 days left before the election, is an undertaking that, while not impossible, presents many challenges. Blaze, who is McDevitt Chair in Computer Science and Law at Georgetown, chairman of the Tor Project and co-creator of the Voting Village at DEFCON, took the virtual "Stage" at Black Hat 2020 on Wednesday for the first-day keynote.

At a Wednesday session at Black Hat USA 2020, researchers with FireEye demonstrated how freely-available, open-source tools - which offer pre-trained natural language processing, computer vision, and speech recognition tools - can be used to create malicious the synthetic media. Social media companies often do not require high bars of credibility, and offer a platform for content to go viral, allowing anyone to create fake media that is believable.

Critical flaws in the popular Meetup platform were revealed Monday as part of research unleashed at this week's Black Hat USA 2020. Erez Yalon, the director of security research with Checkmarx, discussed why these critical vulnerabilities are a "Holy grail" for attackers, and explained how the bugs are indicative of overall application security trends that will be discussed this week at Black Hat USA 2020.

At this year's Black Hat USA 2020 computer security conference, some of the top trends expected to surface include ransomware, election security and how to protect a remote workforce. Young continued, "At Black Hat 2020 I expect we'll hear most about XDR as threats have learned to not set off the known obvious alarms and blocking and are more stealthy as they move between traditional security silos. Related to that will be protecting a remote workforce, and the Mitre ATT&CK framework and more complex threat-hunting. Although the talks won't likely be labeled as such, cyber resilience will be a consistent thread reflecting the transformation that businesses and governments of all sizes had to undergo during the first half of this year."

I know, it's not presented by Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, necessarily, but there is always really cool car security research that comes out of Black Hat. You know, it'll be interesting to see how I mean how the vendors deal with communicating their messages outside of the Black Hat in a sense that you know, so much about Black Hat wasn't actually about the sessions, but some of the off-site stuff and some of the meet and greets and some of the private briefings.

Cybersecurity conferences Black Hat USA and DEF CON 28 will not be held in person this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Both back-to-back annual conferences were set to take place in Las Vegas this year; Black Hat USA on Aug. 1 to 6, 2020, and DEF CON 28 on Aug. 7 to 9, 2020.

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Fuzzing, Transparency, Bug Reporting, Security Basics and More HighlightedSecurity experts speaking on the ending "locknote" panel at this year's Black Hat Europe highlighted trends from the...

Contactless Payments, IoT, False Flag Attacks and More in the SpotlightThis year's Black Hat Europe conference in London features dozens of briefings touching on a wide variety of topics,...

Black Hat's Network Operations team members discuss looking for the "bad within the bad." Also, RSA's CTO talks about managing risks to prevent an individual problem from becoming a societal problem.