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Welcome to Blackhat 2014!

As the summer starts to come to a close, Black Hat returns to Las
Vegas for its 17th year running to bring together some of the brightest,
most innovative minds in the IT Security universe. With more than a

150 of the industries top solution providers and start-ups displaying
their latest technologies, services, and tools that help the information
technology world we know thrive. The six day conference will include

four days of IT Security training followed by two days of IT security
briefing. Join Cyber Defense Magazine as we take a trip Las Vegas to
educate ourselves in the essential skills and knowledge to defend ourselves against today's threats.

With over 1 Billion smartphones being shipped in 2014, hackers have a playground set for deploying
their tools for cybercrime, fraud and spying. The number of automated and free tools for hacking have

risen significantly thereby only increasing chances of such incidents. Read on in this edition about
commonly used exploits and loopholes in the mobile devices ecosystem.

Other vast areas where much focus should be laid on are enterprise security and insider threats.
Disgruntled or negligent employees can cause much harm to an organization’s data including its trade

secrets. In this age, where corporate espionage is rampant, security systems should be hardened to
shut down all classes of insider threats.

Heartbleed continues to be present in the news due to the fact that more than 590 different products
from 100 different vendors have so far been recorded as vulnerable. Device manufacturers and
vendors are sifting through code to identify OpenSSl versions and are also working on patches.

We hope you enjoy this month's edition of Cyber Warnings e-Magazine as we cover these and other

exciting topics, as well as a trip report by our Executive Producer, from the Black Hat USA
conference.

To our faithful readers, Enjoy

Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief, [email protected]

P.S. Congrats Dave Schippers (USA) – this month’s contest winner!

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