Recapping the top stories from Black Hat and DEF CON
Summary: Cisco Talos recapped Black Hat and DEF CON, where AI dominated talks, including a panel featuring a former Obama administration cyber czar promising a broad Biden administration executive order on AI and cybersecurity. FBI officials said at Black Hat that most distributed denial-of-service attacks stem from business transaction disputes or video game disputes, and researchers demonstrated hijacking a popular automatic card shuffler via a tiny physical USB device.
Key Takeaway: The FBI's stated view that most DDoS attacks trace back to business disputes or gaming grudges means the motive behind an outage may be far more ordinary than an adversary campaign, which changes how you scope the response.
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