Welcome to Black Hat 2008

We've successfully registered and have a full day ahead of us. We'll be attending the best of the great selection of presentations available at this year's Black Hat 2008 Briefings in Las Vegas. We'll then be writing a series articles about the latest and most interesting items for Law.com. Today we are scheduled to attend presentations on:

Bad Sushi - Fighting back against phishing attacks

When Lawyers Attack - Strangely the only presentation focused on E-Discovery

Highway to Hell - A presentation on privacy flaws in the EZ-PASS and FasTrak toll systems

Storm Botnet - A look at the largest automated computer attack plaguing the Internet

XPloiting Google Gadgets - Apparently there are some security flaws in these handy little tools

BlueTooth 2.1 - A presentation on new security features and flaws

The Virtualization Security Apocalypse - The title really says it all

Later today we will also be doing a one-on-one interview with Dan Kaminsky, Directory of Penetration Testing for IOActive, of recent Domain Name Service (DNS) flaw discovery fame. Dan was responsible for identifying and carefully notifying the government and vendors about a serious security flaw in the DNS system that literally affected the security of the entire Internet.

For our readers not familiar with DNS, it is the behind-the-scenes service on the Internet that makes sure all web browsing, email and instant messaging makes it back-and -forth between the right computers. Mr. Kominisky and his team of researchers discovered a previously unknown flaw in the DNS protocol that we all use that would allow a hacker to redirect your or intercept your Internet traffic.

We also plan to do several other interviews to day with the more "interesting" presenters and getting comments from some the computer security elite that attend this annual event. We'll pull together a summary of the best of today's events for a new blog posting later today.