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The official Call for Presentations (speakers) for SecurityWeek’s 2020 Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cyber Security Conference, being held October 19 – 22, 2020 in SecurityWeek’s Virtual...

The official Call for Presentations for SecurityWeek's 2020 Industrial Control Systems Cyber Security Conference, being held October 19 - 22, 2020 in SecurityWeek's Virtual Conference Center, has been extended to August 31st. As the premier ICS/SCADA cyber security conference, the event was originally scheduled to take place at the InterContinental Atlanta, but will now take place in a virtual environment due to COVID-19. The 2020 Conference is expected to attract thousands of attendees from around the world, including large critical infrastructure and industrial organizations, military and state and Federal Government.

Video conference users should not post screen images of Zoom and other video conference sessions on social media, according to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers, who easily identified people from public screenshots of video meetings on Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. While there have been many privacy issues associated with video conferencing, the BGU researchers looked at what types of information they could extract from video collage images that were posted online or via social media.

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair has declared that governments can't "Take 10 years to catch up" with cyber crims - while speaking at an infosec conference organised by Vladimir Putin's favourite Russian bank. Blair scoffed at people with concerns about the role of the state in everyday online life, saying: "When people worry about the data they shared with governments - most people share enormous amounts of data with technology companies!".

The 10th annual² Security Congress will take place as a virtual conference in recognition of the health concerns and many corporate travel restrictions this year associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognizing that many training budgets have been reallocated due to the economic impact of COVID-19,² Security Congress 2020 is offering a heavily discounted Early Bird pricing to² members and associates of just $295 for an All-Access pass.

Is the future of information security and tech conferences virtual?While RSA Conference USA - the largest information security conference in the world - managed to take place mere weeks before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, European countries started closing borders and airlines started suspending routes and grounding planes, most infosec and tech events scheduled to take place after it were doomed. Understanding the basics of API securityThis is the first of a series of articles that introduces and explains application programming interfaces security threats, challenges, and solutions for participants in software development, operations, and protection.

While RSA Conference USA - the largest information security conference in the world - managed to take place mere weeks before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, European countries started closing borders and airlines started suspending routes and grounding planes, most infosec and tech events scheduled to take place after it were doomed. "We have found that immersive, live virtual event platforms, offer the opportunity for interacting with exhibitors, solution providers and peer-to-peer networking. Surprisingly, with respect to otherwise introverted attendees, we've found they're more likely to reach out for networking than at a physical event. While the 'happy hour' might not be quite the same, virtual event platforms have thought through almost every facet of the physical event experience."

Hackers had targeted the meeting on the video conference platform Zoom while Weber was completing the final step of her doctoral degree at Duke University. In New York, Attorney General Letitia James sent a letter to Zoom with questions about how users' privacy and security are being protected.

It was just a matter of time once people began using Zoom more frequently to collaborate remotely, that their conversations would be hijacked in a phenomenon known as Zoom bombing. Zoom bombing is an emerging trend where attackers find publicly posted Zoom invite links, then join them to screenshare pornography or other inappropriate content, said Paul Bischoff, a privacy advocate with Comparitech, a pro-consumer website that provides information on tech services.

Both tested positive for COVID-19 after attending RSA in San Francisco. The two Exabeam employees who were diagnosed with coronavirus after attending the RSA tech conference, which ran from Feb. 24-28 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, are on the road to recovery.