Hi, Adam Shostack here. I just wanted to let you know that I’ll be speaking at Black Hat about “Elevation of Privilege: The Easy Way to Threat Model.” Threat modeling is critical to secure development, and people find it intimidating and tough to get started. I will present Elevation...

Hi everyone, this is Grant Bugher. I’ll be giving a talk Thursday afternoon at BlackHat 2010 about securely using cloud storage systems like Windows Azure Storage – how applications that use cloud storage as their database back-end can protect themselves from attacks. Just as with traditional...

Steve Lipner here. Next Tuesday evening (July 27), SAFECode will be sponsoring a brainstorming panel at Black Hat that’s aimed at gathering security community input on vision and approaches for improving software assurance over the next 10 years. SAFECode members all have established software assurance...

Eric Bidstrup here. This year at Blackhat in Las Vegas , there is an interesting title for a session that caught my eye: “ Iron Chef: Blackhat ”. The presenters will be running static and dynamic analysis tools on code to find vulnerabilities. While this will likely be entertaining theater (I’ll...