Black Hat draws world hacking gang – and Apple – to Sin City
The 2012 Black Hat conference is kicking off in Las Vegas, and this year's session will see Apple presenting for the first time, as well as a reunion of some of the team behind the first briefings 15 years ago.
Black Hat, and the associated DefCon sessions which follows it, is probably the largest collection of hardcore computer security experts on the planet, and features the latest updates on hacking opportunities and serious vulnerabilities. Nearly 10,000 people are expected to attend and share or use the knowledge gleaned to protect – or crack – systems.
While Apple has had security staff among the attendees for many years, the company has never actually made a presentation until this year. The recent spate of attacks on its products, however, appears to have engendered a new awareness that it can't go it alone – and so the delightfully named Dallas De Atley, manager of the platform security team at Apple, will deliver a talk on iOS security.
