Homeland Security Seeks the "Black Hats"

Wow, Homeland Security seems to have teamed up with Jeff Moss founder of the DefCon and Black Hat Security Conferences, as he was appointed to the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) on Friday.

According to, InformationWeek, "The HSAC is composed of individuals with extensive security and policy experience from state and local government, the private sector, and academia".

Wow, Homeland Security is going for the best in the country it appears, wow for DefCon and Black Hat for their perseverance

Vendors and Security Researchers Confrontation

Security vendors and researchers got into a confrontation over Black Hat's convention yesterday, according to Information Week. The issue was over proximity cards. The vendors felt as though such a revelation over its technology being exposed would allow duplication of their proximity cards that could allow unauthorized access into facilities. The security card vendor, HID Global Corps., voiced concerns that their intellectual property along with their patents would be exposed and the badges would no longer have the secure identification that was needed for sensitive physical areas. IOActive, the security researchers, reluctantly agreed to back off and not present their findings to the convention.

Here is the problem PC Virus Doctors see in this mess, that regardless if the findings were presented or not, HID Global Corp.s protective security devices were compromised and the end result is their product has lost any security value, monetary value and now noone should want to buy the flawed device. Why would they?