Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.
I had a significant amount of FOMO last week seeing everyone out in Vegas. (I was happy to not get conference crud sickness, but it seems like I missed a great time otherwise.)
But, as anyone who works with me could guess, I was following closely online through social media and news reporting. If you’re in the same boat as me and couldn’t attend BlackHat or DEF CON in person, I wanted to use this space to recap what I felt were the top stories and headlines coming out of the various new research that was published, talks, interviews and more.
Unsurprisingly, it seems like AI was the talk of the town. One panel, which featured the former Cyber Czar in the Obama administration, promised coming action from the Biden administration around AI and its intersection with cybersecurity, including an executive order that apparently will be as broad as earlier orders around the U.S.’ broader approach to security.
There were many other panels and talks around AI, along with questions about whether the technology has plateaued after so many companies developed their own ChatGPT-like.
I was also fascinated by several interviews and talks from an FBI official about distributed denial-of-service attacks. I’ve written before about how there’s a renewed interest in DDoS attacks recently, especially those targeting high-profile companies and games.
Two high-ranking government officials gave a joint talk at Black Hat where they s ..
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