Risk & Repeat: Highlights from Black Hat USA 2023
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Black Hat USA 2023 tackled a variety of cybersecurity topics, from large language models to new vulnerabilities.
This year's Black Hat was the 26th year of the Las Vegas cybersecurity conference, and it took place Aug. 5-10. Generative AI was center stage at the show, as it featured multiple AI-themed announcements, and there was a general sense of an early maturing for this phase of LLM-powered technology. Generative AI was also the theme of RSA Conference 2023, which took place in San Francisco this April.
Black Hat is also a time for new research to be disclosed, and perhaps the most prominent was the Downfall series of attacks unveiled by Google Senior Research Scientist Daniel Moghimi. Downfall is a new class of attacks discovered by Moghimi that involves the exploitation of a flaw, CVE-2022-40982, in Intel superscalar processors.
Other trends observed at the show include focuses on cloud security issues and attack surface management. On this episode of the Risk & Repeat podcast, TechTarget editors Rob Wright and Alex Culafi discuss takeaways from Black Hat USA.
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Alexander Culafi is a writer, journalist and podcaster based in Boston.